Roberto Olivardia
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first heard May 2020
last heard Aug 2024
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recruited men from a lot of the Boston area colleges.
who had eating disorders.
Now, I didn't know at that time actually that that was the first study looking at men with eating disorders that were drawn from a community sample, as opposed to in the late 70s, 80s, all of the research that had been done, the the little research that had been done with men and eating disorders had always drawn them from clinical samples, like hospitals and men who are already in therapy.
And what became very clear was
that that did not capture the full range of males that are out there because what we know is the data today shows that twenty-five percent of people who have eating disorders are male.
And yet only about ten percent of patients in eating disorder treatment centers are male.
So there are a a lot of men that are out there that are never seeking treatment for it.
And
That study was a real turning point for me, uh, professionally and and personally, just to see.
I mean, uh I remember
putting ads in the paper in my thesis committee saying, you know, you should you might need a plan B just in case you don't get enough.
Men recruited for the study or men that are going to be talking about this.
And I remember my answering machine tape, which I actually probably still have somewhere, um, it was filled with messages from these guys who were grateful that I was even doing the study, who couldn't believe that there was actually other men out there enough to warrant a research study.
And it was very moving.
I mean, meeting with these men and they were just happy and or relieved probably is a better word to even talk about struggling with these issues.
And then that just inspired
that work.
I I I mean, one of the things I love about my field and the work that I do is I'm always looking to like how do we fill the gaps?
How do we kind of um put something on the radar?
And and that's, you know, my interest in eating disorders as well as, you know, with things like ADHD and things like that.
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