So, I have been receiving treatment for my eating disorder for about two and a half years in total. In many respects I feel I have gained a huge understanding of how it came to be that I need to treat myself this way. I think it does serve a purpose, albeit in a dangerous way.
I do want to get better, but I think that my actual disorder has become worse throughout treatment so far.
When I started therapy I was a restricting anorexic, with very occasional purging. Since then I have lost and gained in cycles of anorexia and bulimia, and am formally diagnosed as purging type anorexia now.
I am 5foot 6 and currently weigh 93 pounds.
I guess I want to know is it possible to fully recover and be healthy after twelve years of this, or will I always have a residual problem? And also how much of my health problems will remain? I have not menstruated in over two and a half years, I have reduced kidney function, and I have an arrythmia.
Am I fooling myself by thinking things will ever be ok?
2006-09-11
02:16:14
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