Anti-eating disorders
After the conclusion of our study “Anorexia and Bulimia Support and Defence on the Internet” and its presentation to the media by the Spanish Child Ombudsperson in June 2004, and, specially, thanks to the subsequent preventive campaign that we launched, many girls and teenagers sufferers of ED turned to PROTÉGELES searching for help, counselling or some psychological and emotional support. Girls got in contact with PROTÉGELES through the campaign webpage (www.anaymia.com). This page reproduces the style and organisation of pro-ED pages but it provides reliable and medical tested information so that girls searching for pro-ED pages may find it and read it.
As a consequence of the increasing demand we detected, PROTÉGELES set up a Psychology Department, composed by a team of psychologists specialized on ED who offer personalised help to hundreds of young girls from different countries. In May 2005, a second study was concluded and the current helpline
(www.masqueunaimagen.com) was launched. This helpline is a composing element of the campaign: “YOU ARE MORE THAN AN IMAGE”. This campaign was launched after the First National Congress on Anorexia and Bulimia on the Internet that took place in Madrid’s Palacio de Congresos and was promoted by PROTÉGELES.
This helpline has helped, in total, more than 500 girls of different ages. A first study on the results achieved by the helpline is available at PROTÉGELES home page on the following link. http://www.protegeles.com/prevencionanorexia.asp
