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Originally Posted by eskielover
The thing is for me.....stress triggers the anorexia & then when I start loosing weight, I want to keep loosing weight almost addictively.....but it has nothing to do with body image though I love being thin when I get to the lower weight & be becomes difficult to stop loosing.
There may be some really good treatment facilities, but it depends of what the causes & the triggers of your ED are as to whether you will truly get any help out of them or not.
I find the treatment centers totally lacking because they don't even try to really find the underlying reasons for the problem in the first place. Refeeding doesn't help if you don't get to the bottom of the problem in the first place......it's like sticking your finger in a leak in a dam. Most of the time there is past abuse or past traumas that have brought the person to the place of the ED in the first place & they don't seem to care about even getting you to think or deal with the real issues. You can force a person to refeed but if they go home & back into the same environment......all the refeeding in the world isn't going to help the anorexia.
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I almost dropped my iPad reading this, Eskie! I felt like you were describing me. I've never gone IP for my anorexia for the reasons you stated. I feel like I have a fair handle on it now and I know prolonged stress and trauma triggers it. So I just self-manage. My crumbling marriage to a narcissist started me on the ED path. That was a long time ago but stress and other traumas have me fighting my ED daily. It is a seductive, scary thing.
To the OP, I hope you get the help you need and we are here to support you. xo