Please note: This episode of Type 1 on 1 contains honest discussions around diabetes, diabulimia, eating disorders and death which some listeners may find emotionally challenging or triggering.

Jacq Allan is the founder and outgoing director of the charity Diabetes With Eating Disorders, the only current charity in the UK that supports and advocates for people that struggle with both type 1 diabetes and any kind of eating disorder. She's been working tirelessly for the past decade to get diabulimia, a condition in which diabetics omit insulin to lose weight, officially recognised as a mental illness as well as other forms of diabetes-related eating disorders. Jacq has lived with type 1 diabetes for 15 years. She has a PhD in psychology and is currently training to be a clinical psychologist with a focus on eating disorders and diabetes.

Jacq is a formidable woman who, despite dealing with a huge amount of grief and her own mental health issues, has fought to make sure that healthcare professionals and charities wake up to the reality of diabulimia and other diabetes related eating disorders. This chat is brutally honest, incredibly emotional and deeply personal.

This conversations is so, so important: 60% of females with type 1 will have experienced a clinically diagnosable eating disorder by the age of 25. It will likely hit you in the heart, and for that reason I urge you to give this one a listen.

Find Jacq on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrNotDrYet_Jacq
Follow Diabetics with Eating Disorders on Twitter: https://twitter.com/diabeticswithed

Support and Resources
Diabetics with Eating Disorders: http://dwed.org.uk
Diabetes UK support forum: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/how_we_help/community/diabetes-support-forum
T1 Resources: https://www.t1resources.uk/home/
Digibete - For Young People and Families with type 1 diabetes: https://www.digibete.org/
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM): https://www.thecalmzone.net/
Mind Mental Health: https://www.mind.org.uk/

This episode is sponsored by Dexcom and Ypsomed MyLife Diabetescare
https://www.dexcom.com
https://www.mylife-diabetescare.com