I've been in an IP ED unit since August, and I believe that it's making me worse.

I'd had issues of various sorts with food since my early childhood. It's clear that eating issues, for me, are going to be a chronic underlying thing throughout my life. I've always had a distaste, ranging from disinterest to horror, for food, and it's something that I've always aimed to manage rather than eliminate - it seems a bit futile to try to eliminate it. It's an issue with food, however, not an issue with weight. I wouldn't say I have a poor body image; I don't relate at all to other anorexics in that respect. I wouldn't say I have a body image at all. I've always been really detached from my physical appearance.

With depression, I'm also sometimes compelled to starve to harm myself, but not out of any weight-related reason.

But, since entering the ED unit, where the staff expect you to be a textbook anorexic, I've found myself developing aspects of body dysmorphia from which I've never suffered before. For the first time, rather than simple fear of food and the wish to harm myself, I'm becoming afraid of fat. What should I do?