A Yale football player whose heart rate dropped into the 20s. A 24-year-old sent home from the ER because "he's an athlete." Neither one looked like someone with an eating disorder. That's the point.

This week Mitchell sits down with Brittany Davis, LPCC-S, around the embers. Brittany has nearly 20 years in eating disorder treatment and is a former senior regional director of multi-site behavioral health operations in Ohio. She explains why BMI keeps failing patients, why men and people in larger bodies are often missed until they're in crisis, and why so many eating disorder and substance use programs send shared patients back and forth instead of treating them.

In this episode:

• Stigma, AI misinformation, and the push to treat mental health as preventive care
• Why BMI misses so much, and what "set point" actually means
• How eating disorders go unnoticed in male and larger-bodied patients
• The overlap between SUD and eating disorders, and the gap between the two treatment worlds
• Questions every clinician can ask at intake, even without ED expertise
• The risk to clinicians' licenses when misinformation shapes care
• What the field gets wrong: fixating on the primary diagnosis, insurance pressure, and burnout

Connect with Brittany:
Brittany Davis
Next Level Behavioral Consulting
Also on Psychology Today: search "Brittany Davis"

Connect with Around the Embers:
The Ember Collective | www.embercollectivellc.com | 865-255-8330

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