Eva Eastman (she/her)

Co-designing clinical guidelines to adapt eating disorder treatment for adults with ADHD — Eva Eastman Despite strong evidence linking ADHD and eating disorders, there are currently no guidelines to adapt eating disorder treatment for people with ADHD. This study aims to address this gap, by co-design...

If you're a #healthcare professional working with #ADHD or #eatingdisorders in any setting, take a quick 10 min survey to improve treatment for adults with these co-occurring conditions.

Survey & info: bit.ly/adhd-ed-research

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#research #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #mentalhealth

Ha, for me it was potato waffles. I'd eat the end line of squares off first to make the rectangle into a square and then eat each corner square individually until I was left with a centre cross of five squares, eat the surrounding four, then the centre one. Took me 35 years to realise why...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Accounts of emotional dysregulation in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are typically based on external adult observations anchored in neurotypical notions of em...

Read our NEW paper @uclpals.bsky.social to find out what young neurodivergent young people report as key dysregulation triggers.
Their accounts can change how define, measure and support emotion regulation in schools. MRC/UKRI funded
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I haven't found one but am following because I'd like this as well.

I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM Vaccines like the MMR (measles, mumps & rubella) don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death?

I’m Autistic, And Believe Me, It’s A Lot Better Than Measles. (Vaccines don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death?) A thread drawn from @fodderfigure.bsky.social's recent TPGA article:

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/im-a... #VaccinesSaveLives 1/

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Are you a professional supporting individuals with co-occurring eating disorders/disordered eating & ADHD in any healthcare setting?

We need your valuable insights for our research project to improve outcomes for this population!

➡️ Take the confidential survey: bit.ly/adhd-ed-research (10–15 min)

New research project ☺️

Have you had anorexia nervosa yourself and have you also held a role where you provide treatment to others with anorexia? Have you also experienced your own treatment for anorexia ending early?

Please expand the poster below for more information-

The painful consequences of personality disorder diagnosis | Letters Letters: This diagnosis is a label given to survivors of abuse and should not be used with children, writes Keir Harding. Plus a parent writes of how medical professionals abandoned their son

👏 @keirwales.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

These findings sadly don't surprise me in the least.

In my current research (adapting eating disorder treatment for adults with ADHD) I've so far found no existing guidelines for supporting people with ADHD to engage in mental health treatment.

If you know of any papers on this, please share!

Today, I'd like to talk about neurodiversity.
We've had a few scientists wandering about on social media platforms, claiming that neurodiversity academics and fans are 'anti-science'.
Yesterday, I said this is like claiming that biodiversity academics are anti-science. I want to explain more/

Why You Don't Want A Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder — Beam Consultancy Who the hell am I to say this? Well, I’ve worked in mental health services for over 25 years.  The last 10 have been in services specifically for people who hurt themselves and want to die. ...

Shared on Bluesky for the first time…maybe the best thing I wrote this year…

Why you don’t want a diagnosis of BPD

#bpd #eupd

www.beamconsultancy.co.uk/the-blog/202...

Every year I promise myself that this time I won’t be, and every year I’m up till 2am on Christmas Eve 👀

I’d also love to be added when you create a new one ☺️

Useful research by well known team, though be advised of some use of 'medical model' language re autistic ppl.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The co-occurrence of FND, autism, trauma & hypermobility etc.
Moving towards holistic approaches.
Yes indeed. Keep thinking. Getting there...

An Affirming Approach to Supporting Interoception, Feeding Challenges & ARFID Follow along this month as we talk about the links between interoception, feeding challenges, and ARFID, and how we can implement affirming supports.

"We really need to help each person discover the way their body feels when it needs food, when it needs hydration, et cetera, instead of teaching 'hunger is when your stomach is growling,' because that’s not the case for every single person." By Kelly Mahler:

www.kelly-mahler.com/resources/bl...

We’ve created a Starter Pack for UK-based eating disorders research to connect & support those in the field! 🧠📊✨

Follow the pack to stay updated & get involved: go.bsky.app/9Qgb1HZ

If you would like to be included, send us a DM! 💌

“It Has Shown Me How Much I Am Capable Of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood | Autism in Adulthood Background: Research has highlighted a relationship between autistic motherhood and autistic burnout, although autistic mothers’ experiences of autistic burnout have not been explored in depth. Method...

🚨New paper alert: Exploring experiences of autistic burnout in motherhood, led by the fantastic Ashton Ferguson for her undergraduate (!!) dissertation. (Short thread)...

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Inclusive research: Making more impact through accessibility and collaboration Click on the article title to read more.

Sharing our latest editorial for about inclusive research approaches. Written with living experience experts. #OccupationalTherapy #Codesign #Participatory @otaust.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our team is collecting data on autistic wellbeing, masking and social media- if you are #autistic pls consider taking part
redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9...

Interesting assumption to make. I’m not a medical professional of any kind.

My role is supporting people in doing the things that are important to them, whether everyday self care tasks or engaging in meaningful activities and connecting with others and their own sense of identity.

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had such a painful experience. I have friends who have had a very different experience and for whom the pain and exclusion comes when they’re not able to be seen for who they are.

It sounds as though gender affirming care means something different to you than it does to me.

It was a *lot* 😂

Ulysses is fab, I don’t think I could have completed my MSc without it. Breaks everything down into little chunks (I had a “sheet” per paragraph) and removes procrastinatory font and margin tweaking.

It’s only on Apple but Scrivener is a great alternative for cross platform use.

Ahhh, flashbacks to uni the first time around! Chopped up an entire essay to rearrange on a balcony floor.

This memory made so much more sense once ADHD appeared on my radar a decade later. Still can’t work in Word, I use the Ulysses word processor to work with long documents now, makes it a dream.

Oh look, a new angle to seek attention. I hope it didn’t take you that long to try and come up with something clever.

Both hypotheticals you describe would in reality involve in depth highly specialised assessment and multidisciplinary professional intervention so this “example” is a non-starter.

It’s so hard to feel like this! There’s often such a huge “us and them” hierarchical divide between a service and service users that with all the back patting about neuroaffirmative practice for our clients no one realises it’s just as essential for the team supporting them.

I had training like that last year. Awful. It was meant to be about supporting autistic team members but was incredibly disrespectful and deficit-based. I had to leave early because I was so angry and sickened by it. Where possible, I now avoid ND training that has no lived experience elements.

Window of tolerance poster - Doing.Therapy's Ko-fi Shop A4 printable (May work in other sizes)

And this brilliant illustration by Karina Sanson Fisher 👌 ko-fi.com/s/a7d87c0c49

How to Recognize Your Window of Tolerance — Mind My Peelings Have difficulty dealing with trauma, anxiety, or demands of life. Learn to recognize your window of tolerance and self-regulate with these simple steps.

I hadn’t come across that one before, bookmarked to come back to. This is the page I use most often with clients: www.mindmypeelings.com/blog/window-...

Ah yes, this too. I find the Window of Tolerance helpful for demonstrating how our sensitivities can change even within the same day depending on how we’re feeling and what’s going on. Also how there can be differences between things like predictable background sound and unexpected loud noises.

Between worlds: Experiences of doing, being, becoming, and belonging for second generation adults who disaffiliate from a new religious movement Religion and spirituality are under-explored in occupational science and no research to date has addressed religious disaffiliation from an occupational perspective. This research explores the subj...

I fell into this twisty, winding rabbit hole while exploring disaffiliation from high demand religion for my MSc research (doi.org/10.1080/1442...). Most of my saved papers are about conspiracy theories and extremist views rather than politics specifically but happy to share if you’re interested ☺️