Many hospital beds are full. Waiting lists for outpatient treatment are bulging. And teens and adults seeking help for eating disorders are often finding it takes months to get an appointment.
The pandemic has created treacherous conditions for eating disorders, leading to a surge of new cases and relapses that is not abating as restrictions are loosened and Covid-19 cases subside in many places, doctors and other specialists say.
“We are absolutely seeing massive increases,” said Jennifer Wildes, an associate psychiatry professor and director of an outpatient eating disorders programme at the University of Chicago Medicine.
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