As well as all the obvious coping techniques and all of the hows and whys I have learnt whilst in the process of recovery, I feel that I have also learnt a few life lessons that could prove useful for others and it is also helpful for me to actually see them wrote down as it is there as a reminder for myself...
After I had opened up to people closest to me things didn't get better straight away. There was a lot of situations that bothered me and made things difficult. In this post I am going to talk about the things that I found difficult to cope with at the time so that if anybody else can relate to these things I can show...
This post is going to be discussing what happened during my evaluation at the eating disorder clinic that my GP referred me to. I hope that by sharing my experiences it will help to push other people to seek help if they need it. On the day of my evaluation I was extremely nervous and was convinced that they would not believe me...
I was actually really nervous to even ask my mum to do this post because although these days I am honest with her about my eating disorder and when Im feeling down, we've never really discussed how she feels/felt about everything and I think in some ways I have purposefully avoided asking her about it because its hard for me to hear how...
Okay so if you read Mondays post you will know that two years ago on the 6th of February I told my parents about my eating disorder. Previous to me telling them about it, I had managed to keep it a secret from them for 10 years although during those 10 years I did tell a couple of friends about it but had...
Today marks the two year anniversary of when I first properly started the process of recovery. This time two years ago I could have never imagined that I would have ever got the help and to be honest if it wasn't for the fact that I was drunk I would probably still be dealing with it in secret. This time two years ago...