I just fainted for the first tim in my life. I kept boasting about the fact that I never faint. Thinking it won't be me. So please, to everyone. You are not immune from the complications of this horrible disease. We think we are invincible until we aren't.
For anyone who is an adult here, did you tell your parents you have anorexia? The secret is too heavy to hold and I'm going back and forth between telling them and staying quiet.
I told my psychiatrist I feel like I'm losing control over my anorexia and engaging in behaviours and she recommended hospital. I absolutely won't go and can't pay for a private clinic.
Did anyone recover without ever being inpatient? I'd like some tips. Thanks.
I started recovery 3 weeks ago. It was fine at the beginning because food was reintroduced slowly but the 4th week due to my weight, intake has really increased and I freaked out and I'm back to restricting and compulsive exercising and I feel myself slipping and like I'm unresponsive to treatment which is scary.
Having both depression and anorexia is not a good combination. I mean I'm so depressed I don't even have a "why to recover". I'm afraid of physical complications but it is not a strong enough "why". People say recover to live your life. What life! My life is so depressing I don't even know what's waiting for me beyond the anorexia.
I'm two months into my anorexia. I got caught early because I was already in therapy for something else.
I did lose weight but I'm still at a normal BMI but my psychiatrist is telling to refeed and setting food goals for me to achieve. They also said they will send me to hospital if my weight keeps getting lower.
Next week they will give me a meal plan to follow to a T but my brain can't accept recovery when I'm still at a normal weight and no major physical complications yet to knock some sense into me.
I'm already familiar with ocd malnutrition complications and was hospitalised for it and I don't wanna go back to hospital.
I don't wanna refeed, I think it's too soon and I'm terrified.
Any advice on how to recover at a healthy weight already or any words of encouragement on how to recover when you absolutely don't want to.
Thanks guys.
I'm two months into my anorexia. I got caught early because I was already in therapy for something else.
I did lose weight but I'm still at a normal BMI but my psychiatrist is telling me to refeed and setting food goals for me to achieve. They also said they will send me to hospital if my weight keeps getting lower.
Next week they will give me a meal plan to follow to a T but my brain can't accept recovery when I'm still at a normal weight and no major physical complications yet to knock some sense into me.
I'm already familiar with ocd malnutrition complications and was hospitalised for it and I don't wanna go back to hospital.
I don't wanna refeed, I think it's too soon and I'm terrified.
Any advice on how to recover at a healthy weight already or any words of encouragement on how to recover when you absolutely don't want to.
Thanks guys.
I have bloating for two years now even prior to developping anorexia. The bloating is always there no matter what
Is anyone in a similar position? Not the recovery bloat.
I struggled with ocd malnutrition for 2 years now. I had all the physical symptomps of anorexia but I didn't restrict for weight reasons. I got to a low bmi, was weight restored then developped anorexia and got diagnosed a week and half ago. So I had anorexia for about a month.
Since I was recently weight restored, my body can't handle anymore restriction and my bones and muscles are starting to hurt already even when I'm at a healthy weight.
If I recover now, I feel like a fake anorexic having it only for a month when most of you on this sub has had it for years. I went for therapy for ocd and got caught early and I'm debating if I should recover now or I don't deserve it or even belong to the community.
I have been recently diagnosed and in early stages and I'm fed up already. No energy to do anything but still have to exercise, the mental anguish.....
I have been through something like this but it was ARFID. Anorexia is even worse in my opinion(not to belittle people suffering with ARFID, I went through it too, it's just a personal observation)
I think it's because I struggled with ARFID for two yeras that I can't deal with the recent anorexia.
My heart goes out to all of you battling it for years and decades. You all are warriors.
Did anyone else' ed escalate after getting the diagnosis because you dont feel anorexic enough? Kinda like to prove it ?