The online dangers of eating disorder content: ‘It will find you, but it will pretend to be something else’

‘At the start… it was toxic,” Ciara Regan (28) says of the online pro-anorexia community of which she was a member. ‘Let’s do this illness together’ and ‘Let’s be the best anorexic that you can be’ were examples of the type of encouragement member would give each other. “There are all these tips and tricks,” she says.