Eating Difficulties

Recommendations

Person 1

What were you hoping or expecting the self-help materials would help you with?

"Anxiety around food"

What helped or didn’t help you actually use or stick with the material?- think what was going on for you at the time, how it was written, how it looks, how it made you feel.

"It was bold and young people friendly"

Would you recommend the self-help material to a friend? Please explain why.

"Yes"

Did you feel the self-help made a difference to you or change anything for you? If so in what way?

"Nope"

Person 2

Why did you choose that mental health self-help material?

"I wanted to get more information on ARFID so I could create a document based on my own experience to share with professionals so they could help me as they weren’t taking my views into account."

What caught your eye and got you to engage with the material?

"The easy to read text, the font and size of the font is easy for me to read and the purple contrast of the charity helps to draw my eye"

What helped or didn’t help you actually use or stick with the material?- think what was going on for you at the time, how it was written, how it looks, how it made you feel.

"I was in hospital at the time and physically unwell from the consequences of ARFID and i’d say both of them didn’t help me concentrate much but what did help was my enthusiasm to try get myself the support i knew i wanted and needed to get better and to fight for what i knew was right, as i said in the last question it’s easy to read so wasn’t too much of a struggle and i just bullet pointed what resonated with me."