I am in the same age range and it is shocking how little information really exists on the long-term effects. There is the general info out there but everything reads like it just was written off a pamphlet in a pediatricians office. I had an IP intake where they asked me if I visited proAna and Mia sites....I told them my eating disorder pre-dates the Internet. No one tells you about the years of hardness this disease does to you mentally, how much damage can be done physically. I often think like Miguel's Mom in that its been almost 25 years, maybe the best we can do is learn to be okay in life, and maybe the disorder will quiet down. It's hard because after so many years, where does one begin to peel back all the layers and purposes our disease serves us? The reasons why we developed the disorder as a teen, may not be the same reasons it is maintained today....I do see an ED therapist and I wish I would have many years ago.