Initially I thought she was just on a healthy eating drive, cutting out “bad food” and eating regular, healthy meals. Our journey to the ED service started about 6 months ago when she began to develop a fixation with food. I say “our” eating disorder (ED) as reflecting back on our experiences as a family of four, we have had our own individual relationship with our youngest daughters ED. On a much more personal level, 2016 was the year that we as a family met our Eating Disorder.
Many of us were pleased to see the back of 2016. We saw some crucial political decisions made and home and abroad that shocked us. It can escalate so quickly and is a very dangerous disorder.Ģ016 was a year that brought it’s challenged to the world. It is so important to speak up about your eating disorder and get help. I just got told “how stupid it’s only water” but to me it was more than water, it was poison dripping through my veins.īut after all these years of self-neglect I can finally say with the help of my amazing team around me I’ve overcome my eating disorder and am now weight restored. I still didn’t please the voices circulating in my head.įood was the enemy! On some days I would cry over drinking a glass of water scared it was going to make me gain weight. I would go days at a time without eating and what did I achieve? Nothing but pain and discomfort. It was the scariest time of my life and still haunts me now. I couldn’t eat in front of people in case they thought “wow, look at how fat she is”.
I couldn’t go out and do normal things due to collapsing and exhaustion. My eating disorder consumed every single thought I had. I used to think weighing myself everyday was ‘normal’. Top tips for looking after your mental healthĪutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) AssessmentsĪs I step on those scales my minds screaming at me “you better have lost otherwise there’ll be problems”. Looking after your mental health this festive season Tips for looking after your mental health on results dayīoost your mental health during the school holidays Worried that someone is at risk of suicide There are still those who shun me, even though I have the undisputable medical proof of my inherited disease.Keeping your eating disorder recovery on trackĬoping with Christmas and Eating Disorders There is much misinformation in the medical profession and media concerning Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia. Some family members have chronic related problems and are now convinced they have been misdiagnosed for years. Looking back in my family’s medical history, the related problems are almost epidemic. This disease affects different people in different ways. They did not have the weight loss problem, but had other symptoms of the disease that were also ignored by their doctors for decades.
Since my surgery my mother and grandmother have had the same surgery. All the while the real underlying problem was caused by a known and not so rare chronic disease, that was corrected by a relatively simple surgery. While at my lowest weight of sixty-three pounds, being constantly stared and glared at in public.įinally my computer challenged mother saved my life by searching on the internet, finding Dr. I learned of conversations behind my back about "what I was doing to myself," as if I had any control over my weight. My book "Anorexia Misdiagnosed" tells the tale of what I call "The Modern Day Leper." I was shunned by those I thought were friends, along with teachers and employers. The next ten years was a roller coaster of doctor after doctor accusing me of having Anorexia Nervosa, while never running the appropriate medical tests to look for what was really physically wrong. After being heavy in junior high, I plummeted sixty pounds at fifteen, and the horror story began. The first symptom was reported to my pediatrician at one month, and nothing was done. If you have been diagnosed as having Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia, the real problem may be a physical condition and not in your head! Most doctors are not aware they need to run a simple test to check for a not so rare disease, before you will know for sure.
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