Your Stories

I don’t remember why I started making myself sick or even when, but I will always remember why and when I took the decision to stop.

Read Joe's poem on his personal battle with anorexia, 'A day in the life of us'.

People often asked me what started my anorexia. My old self had been forgotten and I was learning how to get her back again.

I'm going to change the stigma surrounding eating disorders, help those going through the struggles of battling voices telling them they're not good enough.

Without a doubt, people look at you and long for your long curly hair, your curves, your eyes or your confidence.

If I could speak to myself at each of the pivotal moments in my illness, starting when my anorexia developed after my 16th birthday, this is what I'd say.

Dr Pooky Knightsmith Hesmondhalgh, a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist shares a recent post from her own blog.

I woke up a few years back with a voice in my head, at first, I thought it was my friend but over time it filled me with dread.

If you ran a marathon without any shoes on you certainly wouldn’t win, so don’t punish yourself if you’ve had setbacks because of an eating disorder.

I don't recall booking a flight for two, but there you were, firmly planted into the seat next to me.

What may help, & what aided me in my recovery, was personifying the eating disorder – I chose to give mine the deliberately reductive moniker 'ED'.

Anorexia isn’t the same for everyone, & whilst the majority of patients share negative attitudes towards food, it doesn’t manifest itself in the same ways.