Anorexia Recovery

Recovery is a life long process. I sincerely hope you have a therapist and a strong support system behind you, both things can help.

Feel free to personal message me if you need someone to talk to or help finding a therapist!

It is hard, and unfairly so. It's hard enough to get through recovery when you truly want it, and it's tough to maintain the drive to recover, even when most of you knows it's necessary. One thing that can be helpful is to help yourself have constant reminders of why you want it. That could be making a list of all the reasons recovery is worth it and posting it where you see it regularly, it could be having check points with someone you trust each day to talk about how you're feeling and your motivation, it could mean putting up recovery oriented quotes all around your room - something to make sure that even when you're not feeling like you want to recover, you can be reminded of why you're working so hard to do it.

It's hard. I still haven't done it either. No matter how hard I try I can't bring my body to eat or to want to eat. I know I'm going to become frail and sick but the need to be skinny and the need to be something other than I am is too strong. I know how you feel and I want you to know. I'm here for you.

Hey...an eating disorder is something relatively new to my life. And I'm scared honestly. Scared of dying. I'm already feeling sick and weak and I haven't been battling it that long yet. About a year and a half ago I started restricting my eating and now here I am and I can't even justify putting food to my lips. I never thought it would get to this point. But I don't eat unless I have to to keep up appearances, and when I do I spit most of it out or make sure it's usually no more than (edited by @Anomalia to remove specific calories/triggers) calories.Then I immediately try to exercise it off. I just...I want to get better before I reach a point of no return...but also, I don't want anyone to get in my way...I don't know what I'm doing...