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If the community isn’t making you stronger & helping you then it no longer serves a purpose in your recovery, but you have the power to change that.
What may help, & what aided me in my recovery, was personifying the eating disorder – I chose to give mine the deliberately reductive moniker 'ED'.
I cannot cut food out of my life cold turkey, but I can manage the situation now. And for me, that management came through honesty, openness and sharing.
Some would be shocked and consider it a waste of NHS money if I told you I spent some sessions just sobbing or in angry silence, but that was what I needed.
My story begins when I was 16 with a motivation to shift a few pounds to look ‘slimmer’ in prom photos. It became a monster of an eating disorder.
I never wanted to play football at school; I never really wanted to take part in anything like that. I did occasionally partake in table tennis.
There are a lot of things that often trigger people recovering from an eating disorder. Here are some of them.
10 helpful things to say to someone with an eating disorder as knowing what to say to someone can be tricky.
I know it is up to me to destroy you. His fight alone would never win this war. But with him I do not face you alone.
I know I have to make my secret public for my own recovery & for the sake of everyone else feeling trapped by the stigma of mental illnesses.
I don’t have an eating disorder. If you have an eating disorder you are skinny, you are a young girl, you have self-control.
It seems strange to write a letter to someone or something that isn’t a physical entity, but at the same time couldn’t be more real to me.