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Lea is a Belgian woman who spent two years in psychiatric hospitals after she became anorexic. She has recovered, finished college and is challenging her treatment.

Articles by Lea

This week’s front page editor

Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

Lea's story: my days as a mad girl

Lea 31 October 2014

In immaculate clinics people are segregated, held down, drugged, often with no other purpose than to control them and get them out of the way. Content warning: eating disorders, self harm, medical abuse.