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The Eatingdisorder Association - earlier IKS - was founded in 1987 by women who had a personal history of eating disorders. Today, we are a nationwide organization with several local units and a substantial number of members. Everybody can be a member.  Our organization is a self-help. In our experience, it is very rewarding to meet people with similar problems for mutual support while working one's way out of the eating disorder. Self-help may be a supplement or an alternative to therapy.

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Our aims are:

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• To support and aid people with an eating disorder, as well as their relatives and friends

• To spread information about eating disorder, so that these will be taken seriously

• To make the public health services establish adequate and wide-ranged treatment facilities

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What we offers:

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• Support and information by phone or in person

• Members' evenings

• Self-help groups and parants- and spousegroups

• Voluntary work

• Weekend courses for our voluntary

• Information about eating disorders

• Personal answers to all letters and e-mails

• Personal guidance

• Website

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Our local units:

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• Oslo

• Buskerud

• Vestfold

• Østfold

• Innlandet

• Telemark

• Bodø