Over the past week, I was reflecting on my years of illness with anorexia and the periods of time I spent in eating disorder treatment (with more than one admission to an eating disorder unit). These are not the most happy memories to look back on but as I did so, I realised with no […]
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This morning I woke up to the best message ever in my inbox… a message from another woman, of a similar age to me, who has had anorexia for years, telling me, “Today is the day… I am doing it!!”. … Yes, after a turbulent few days of indecision she is taking the terrifying and […]
With pride, happiness, strength and a smile, I can say that I have been in recovery for 5 months, and life is pretty great on the other side. I share with you my story about nutritional and medical rehabilitation where I compare being in the hospital and being in residential treatment. One place saved my […]
My treatment journey initially begins quite positively. At 16, when my Mum realised I had a problem I was taken to the family GP who was very understanding and then referred me onto CAMHS and I was seen really quite quickly. However this is unfortunately where the good points end. I began at CAMHS in […]
I’ve had an eating disorder from a very young age. My difficulties really started from about ten years of age but I’d gone through some trauma before then too. When I received the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa I don’t think it sunk in for many years. I have received some good community support and […]
I am currently 43 years of age but I first developed anorexia as a teenager I was the stereotypical teenage girl anorexic – food avoidant, hiding under baggy clothing, compulsively exercising in private in my bedroom whenever possible, weighing myself constantly – very much focused on losing weight at all costs, weighing any food that […]
A Favourite Quote Of M’s First off, I want to say I DO understand that any institutional setting or group program is limited in what it can offer people. Any kind of food service in a group setting has to be structured to meet the needs of staffing limitations and food safety issues. This […]
I was an inpatient three times in three different treatment centres / hospitals when I was 15-16 years old, after developing Anorexia age 12. It’s hard to even put into words how damaging these occasions were for me and they did far more harm than good for both my physical and mental well being […]
Well, I have got an awful lot to say, so beware!! I am 46 and have had an eating disorder since age 24. My inpatient treatment started last year, in May, in a hospital in the UK. So much of the experience didn’t help that I don’t know where to start!! Firstly, though, the staff […]
I have had a few experiences of inpatient treatment for my eating disorder from ages 13 – 18 years. One of these was a mixed adolescent ward with different young people with a wide range of mental health issues and the others were specialist units for eating disorders. I found all of the places I […]
I live in France and have been inpatient six times for periods ranging from two weeks (I left here as I wasn’t ready) to three months (when I did really try). There are few positives in my story. I only stuck with the eating disorder treatment as I was also needing treatment for my mood […]
It is official. I am finally so sick of hearing stories from incredible people around the world, bravely doing battle with powerful eating disorders but receiving terrible treatment that I felt it was time to take more action. Adult eating disorder treatment worldwide is largely inadequate and things are changing too slowly. I am aware […]
Eating disorder treatment needs to evolve and listen to the patients! Too many people, like myself, are leaving traditional treatment in order to recover because treatment is not providing the treatment approach that is so necessary. Others are taking the eating disorder services offered but having to find the courage to go beyond the teachings […]
Over the years I had treatment attempts for my eating disorder using the traditional low and slow approach – always leaving me at partial weight restoration and in a quasi recovery but never getting me recoverED! In treatment it was ingrained that we gain 0.5-1kg a week on meal plans that were restrictive and the […]
Today I got very angry at the eating disorder… perhaps nothing unusual about that. But tonight it’s not so much my eating disorder I am angry at. I’m pissed off about every eating disorder out there. I am mad at this illness for the pain I know so well that it has inflicted and is […]
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