Joyce Fegan: Dismantling society’s murky immersion in diet culture
Counting steps, commenting on other people s bodies, and congratulating people on restricting their energy intake all feed into an illness that takes lives and rules lives
Nikki Grahame, with her award for Most Popular TV Contender, at the National Television Awards 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The ‘Big Brother’ star died last Friday, at the age of 38, having just left treatment for an eating disorder.
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The death of Big Brother star Nikki Grahame seemed to pass without much notice over here.
The 2006 Big Brother star died last Friday, at the age of 38, having just left treatment for an eating disorder an illness she had been affected by for 30 years.
Tragic Big Brother star Nikki Grahame was the victim of a series of NHS care failures that led to her entirely avoidable death from anorexia, those closest to the 38-year-old have claimed.
They have also revealed Nikki s desperate struggle to get treatment over the last six months, during which time she was discharged from hospital twice while severely unwell, on one occasion weighing just three and a half stone – the equivalent of a seven-year-old child.
The last time she was discharged, on Thursday April 8, she weighed less than five stone. Just 12 hours later, she was dead. If she hadn t have been discharged, I think she d still be with us today, said one friend who has been closely involved with her medical case over a number of years.
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Oldham charity supporting recovery from addiction after lockdown Date published: 15 April 2021
Sounds at the Edges takes place at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and runs on Wednesday mornings. Image courtesy of Claire Armitage
Sounds at the Edges, a new project by pioneering Oldham-based visual arts charity Portraits of Recovery (PORe), is bringing people in recovery from substance use together with a range of contemporary artists from across Greater Manchester.
Collaborating in weekly sessions throughout April and May, the project supports increased access to high-quality artistic experiences for the often-marginalised recovery community.
COVID-19 has hit those dealing with addiction hard – a September 2020 study conducted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found that 8.4 million people’s drinking habits were classified as “high risk”, up from 4.8 million in February.