Athlete Mental Health & Eating Disorders - a news & discussion thread

[Sylvia]

Recent IG post by Selmasiri Bella Larsen at her JGP event

Selmasiri Bella Larsen on Instagram: "Today i skated my first ever program at a JGP. That should be enough to make me extremely happy and proud. However, i had to read some really inacceptable comments (among other things about my body), and that was

selmasiri_bellaSeptember 7, 2023 on : "Today i skated my first ever program at a JGP. That should be enough to make me extremely happy and proud. However, i had to read some re..."

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So glad she has a strong mental health component to her training to comment openly on this.

Thanks - Larsen's and Gunnarsdóttir's Instagram posts are linked and discussed in the JGP thread (posts #164 & 164): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/2023-24-isu-junior-grand-prix.110722/page-6#post-6465903

As well as Mark Hanretty's reaction during the JGP Istanbul livestream: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw9cR_uo1-J/

 

[B.Cooper]

Milestone week for Rachael Flatt last week per her IG feed...

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Adding some new letters to my name: PhD! Excited to share that I defended my dissertation this week! It’s been a long 5 years, and I’m so proud of the work I’ve done and the person I’ve become as a result of this experience #phdone​

"Evaluation of Adaptable and Dynamic Approaches for a Digital Intervention for Binge-Type Eating Disorders"

Rachael Flatt on Instagram: "Adding some new letters to my name: PhD! Excited to share that I defended my dissertation this week! It’s been a long 5 years, and I’m so proud of the work I’ve done and the person I’ve become as a result of this experien

139 likes, 22 comments - reflatt on October 1, 2023: "Adding some new letters to my name: PhD! Excited to share that I defended my dissertation this we..."

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and her thanking her friends and family, her committee etc.

https://www.instagram.com/reflatt/?img_index=1

And she is at Duke Medicine doing her clinical psych internship

Rachael Flatt, MA | Duke Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Undergraduate School Stanford University

psychiatry.duke.edu

amazing list of publications, academic presentations, invited talks and lectures

 

[Debbie S]

Congratulations to Rachael!

 

[PRlady]

Wow. Really impressed by what she’s accomplished.