Eating disorders are increasingly common in today's society, especially among elite athletes. Alba Orois, a player for Unicaja, has decided to use her personal experience to raise awareness. The Catalan player identified the problem while playing at the University of Maine. "When I went to the United States, it was the first time I'd ever left home. Things went well athletically, but I realized something wasn't quite right. I was constantly calling my parents and family, and I remember one particular day as if it were yesterday. I was talking to my mother, and she asked me if I was okay because she kept seeing me in a pair of pants, and as soon as I put them on, they fell off. That's when I started to think something wasn't right."

My daughter is stable but not cured. She's at a point where her life isn't in danger, but the eating disorder (ED) is still very strong, and there are times when living with it becomes difficult.

From one day to the next and without warning, patients with eating disorders (ED) of the Bofill Clinic in Girona They have stopped receiving financial aid to finance their treatment. In total, eighteen families are affected, and since the end of 2024, they have no longer received the monthly benefit that allowed them to cover practically all the costs of this private clinic in Girona, which offers a day hospital service for cases of anorexia and bulimia. This is the aid from the school insurance, which depends on the Ministry of Social Security and covers boys and girls up to the age of 28 who are enrolled in compulsory education.

Eating disorders (ED) have doubled among Catalan teenagers since the lockdown due to the Covid pandemic. Diagnoses have increased especially among girls between 10 and 19 years old, regardless of their socioeconomic level and family situation. However, anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorders are not only the domain of children and adolescents. The Catalan health survey indicates that there are currently more than 85,000 people who suffer from some type of ED. All these data were revealed last October, within the framework of a Sant Pau Talks in which, through several professionals from the hospital's ED unit and the witnesses of some of its former patients, the causes and personal and family effects of this group of mental illnesses were addressed, as well as the phases of their journey and the importance of this cure.