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Mental disorders are classified as medical conditions that affect your moods, thoughts, and behaviors. Mental disorders vary from person to person and can last either short or long term. You’ve likely heard of conditions like Schizophrenia or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder before – you know someone diagnosed with one of these …

It seems to be a truth almost universally acknowledged that the combination of a pandemic and a lockdown may have negative consequences for mental health (Holmes 2020, BBC News website). Eating disorders tend not to be the first mental illness people remember (despite their mortality rate of up to 6%) …