Posted by fallsfall on March 19, 2004, at 20:31:15
In reply to And therein lies the rub... » fallsfall, posted by Racer on March 19, 2004, at 17:19:51
Please, please find yourself a therapist with experience with eating disorders. Please?
You are ready to work on this problem. Now is the time to do it.
There was an eating disorders unit in the hospital where I've been. It is populated mostly by High School students. But when I was there on the General Adult Psych unit, there was one girl who was (maybe) 21 in the eating disorders program. She slept on our unit and did the morning and evening checkins with us. Everything else was done with the ED unit. She was the nicest person you have ever met, and she worked SO hard to understand why she had issues and to address them. There was one day when it was somebody's birthday. I talked the kitchen into giving us a cake for the celebration. She was on the unit when we broke out the cake. She took a regular sized piece of cake, and she ate the whole thing. She was so incredibly proud of herself. It was a joy to watch her. We had heard, day after day, how hard she was working and how much insight she was getting. This cake was like the culmination of her program. And she just lit right up.
I wish this for you.
Please find someone to help you. This isn't the kind of thing you can do by yourself. Don't feel weak for needing help, and for heaven's sake, don't take Dr. EyeCandy's opinion as being worth anything. You know you are heading into dangerous waters - please find a life raft.
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