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Why call it a mosaic? Because a mosaic is made of broken pieces put together to form a whole. This perfectly mirrors the biological reality of eating disorders.

But if we are ever to truly understand and treat these complex illnesses, we have to stop looking at the sketch. We have to start looking at the . ed mosaic

No two mosaics are alike. One person’s eating disorder might be primarily driven by trauma tiles, while another’s is driven by genetic tiles. Recognizing this complexity is the first step toward effective, individualized treatment. Why call it a mosaic

Ed Mosaic had a name that sounded like an art project, which was fitting, because his life was a collection of broken pieces. He was the town’s self-appointed “repairman of forgotten things”—not clocks or toasters, but memories. In his dusty shop on Harbor Street, he’d take a chipped teacup from a woman whose mother had just died, or a rusted locket from a man who’d lost his twin brother, and he wouldn’t fix the object. He’d fix the story around it. But if we are ever to truly understand

Science tells us that EDs are "biopsychosocial" illnesses. This is the grout that holds the tiles of the mosaic together: