(Oxford) Diploma: Mental health - eating disorder therapy

This is a course about a major problem of healthy eating - eating disorder therapy - when the 'healthy' aspect become UNhealthy. There are two Instructors: Chris Sivewright and Johana Alandete. Johana writes:"I start by clarifying that I am not a health professional, I am not a doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, or anything like that.

I am, in fact, a Master in Administration, a writer by passion, a singer, an actress and a comedian with my friends and family. In fact, I always dreamt of being a comedy actress. BUT mental issues are important for me, reason why I research a lot from science papers, books, experts, and people who lives with.

I am also a person who has gone through a depression diagnosed as severe, according to my psychiatrist. The madness (that is what I called my depression), manifested itself after I developed an eating disorder that began in near anorexia-bulimia and mutated into an orthorexia (not yet included in the DSM-5). At first, I started removing certain foods from my diet (sugar, grease, carbs, process food, some fruits), until I was afraid to eat two leaves of lettuce because it was too much.

When I was almost in the bones, the depression began. I isolated myself, became almost a zombie, a body without a soul and the histrionic Johana who used to speak so much, who was exaggerating everything as a joke, who loved to laugh out loud, had become only "something", a physical body that inhabited an empty space. I stopped being someone.