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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 told my parents and they said they had suspicions but thought they'd know if something was wrong. A lot of people didn't know what to say.
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.
There are a lot of things that often trigger people recovering from an eating disorder. Here are some of them.
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.
For me, letting go of anorexia and choosing recovery was about acknowledging that I had an identity separate from the eating disorder.
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.
10 helpful things to say to someone with an eating disorder as knowing what to say to someone can be tricky.
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.
Recovery made me recognise how abnormal my mind and fears were to my family and the people trying to help me.
Looking back, I have come to realise that the role of carers with people suffering from eating disorders is paramount to their recovery.