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That's all from Holyrood Live on Wednesday 28 February 2018.

Scotland's Lord Advocate defended the "continuity bill" brought forward by ministers as part of an ongoing row over post-Brexit powers.

Holyrood's presiding officer has said the bill falls outwith the Scottish Parliament's remit.

But top lawyer James Wolffe said the bill was "carefully framed" to be in line with UK and EU law.

The government intends to press ahead with the legislation even without the backing of the presiding officer.

Perhaps the story of the day was outside Holyrood, namely the beast from the east.

Good night and take care.

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Ms Watt says she is very concerned about waiting times and she says the government is acting to tacklle that.

She says for many health boards the mean waiting time is much lower than 18 weeks.

"I accept that we need to do better."

She says services must reflect the digital lifestyles of younger people.

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Becky Rudkin wrote about her experience of diabulimia for BBC Three.

You don’t get a day off when you’ve got diabetes. Every day is about blood sugar levels, needles and numbers.

When you’ve got diabetes and an eating disorder, well, that’s a lot of numbers dictating your life, from calorie counting to watching the scales.

I have diabulimia. The term is a combination of diabetes and bulimia, and it’s used to describe someone with type 1 diabetes who deliberately reduces the amount of insulin they take to lose weight – someone like me.

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 10 years ago, aged 19. Unliketype 2 diabetes, external, which is linked to your diet and lifestyle, type 1 is an autoimmune disease. It has no known cause and can’t be cured.

I couldn’t shake the idea that people would assume my diabetes was caused by my weight.

Read more of Becky's story here.

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Mental Health Minister Maureen Watt praises her former colleague Dennis Robertson who, she says, through his courageous campaigning has "seared eating disorders into my brain".

Ms Watt the guiding ambition of the mental health strategy is that you should only have to ask once to get help.

She praises the See Me and Beat campaigns.

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According to Beat, external, eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that involve disordered eating behaviour.

This might mean limiting the amount of food eaten, eating very large quantities of food at once, getting rid of food eaten through unhealthy means (e.g. purging, laxative misuse, fasting, or excessive exercise), or a combination of these behaviours.

Eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. It’s also common for people to be diagnosed with “other specified feeding or eating disorder” (OSFED).

Eating disorders can cause serious harm and may be fatal – anorexia has the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses.

But even though they are serious illnesses, eating disorders are treatable.

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Jayne Nisbet's eating disorder almost robbed her of her sporting dream - but the Edinburgh athlete fought back to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The 29-year-old, who has now retired from competing in the high jump, spoke to the BBC about her battle with bulimia in order to highlight the issue and inspire others to fight it.

Jayne said she had been a top junior athlete who was tipped for the Olympics, but that she "spiralled downhill" because her illness.

"I felt like I was useless," she says.

"I had bulimia, which was combined with depression, and I suffered from anxiety for lots of years afterwards."

Jayne says she now recognises features of her condition, such as extreme behaviour and perfectionist tendencies, going back to childhood.

But it all came to a head in the year before the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010.

Read more here.

Tory MSP Edward Mountain makes a plea to do more to support families which struggle to cope as they watch their child waste away in front of them.

Mr Mountain calls for early intervention and says he is not convinced it is widely available.

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SNP MSP Emma Harper says: "Clearly more needs to be done to educate people about the reality of how eating disorders manifest".

Ms Harper says as a person with Type 1 diabtes she wants to highlight dibulimia.

The word ‘diabulimia’ merges the words ‘diabetes’ and ‘bulimia’.

It is used to describe the situation where somebody deliberately and regularly reduces the amount of insulin they take due to concerns over their body weight and/or shape.

Ms Harper says she knew a young lady when she was growing up who died of diabulimia.

Eloise du Luart looked like a healthy student but inside she harboured an obsessive relationship with food.

If you are affected by any of these issues you can find helphere.

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Tory MSP Jeremey Balfour says he became of this issue when as a teenager he attended a family funeral of a someone who died from an eating disorder.

Mr Balfour says, as the father of two daughters, he wants to know the symptoms to look out for in his children and their friends.

He says eating disorders are serious and a mental illness and need to be treated quickly and appropriately.

The Tory MSP welcomes the mental health strategy and asks for more detail from the minister in her closing speech.

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The charity Beat says the main signs to watch out for are:

• becoming obsessive about food
• changes in behaviour
• having distorted beliefs about their body size
• often tired or struggling to concentrate
• disappearing to the toilet after meals
• starting to exercise excessively

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SNP MSP Rona Mackay says two of her school friends suffered from anorexia nervosa.

Ms Mackay says it was terrible watching her friends "fade away before the front of your eyes".

She too pays tribute to former SNP MSP Dennis Robertson.

"I must have been in denial - I was in denial," says Lynda Kent, whose daughter developed an eating disorder 15 years ago at the age of 19.

"I didn't want to see there was a problem, until her sister made it very clear that we had a problem."

Lynda says she knew nothing about eating disorders back then and was slow to pick up on the telltale signs.

Her story is not untypical, as a survey finds one in three adults could not name any signs of an eating disorder.

The YouGov survey of 2,108 adults in the UK - to mark Eating Disorders Awareness Week - also found 79% were unable to name psychological symptoms, such as low self-esteem or having a distorted perception of weight.

The eating disorder charity Beat says low awareness of the early signs of illnesses like anorexia and bulimia is linked to delayed treatment and increased risk of the illness becoming life-threatening.

Read more here.