I too am so sorry the show upset you... watching shows like that are very upsetting...and for that reason - I don't watch them...

I believe that there are so many unknowns about eating disorders - and so... to say that a person even after recovery of an eating disorder will die from the effects of the eating disorder - well science really doesn't know....

It is not a given... it really isn't....

At my age in life.... I have seen science... prove... one thing... then disprove the very thing it proved..a few years later

I have watched new technologies come out that were not available even 5 years ago to treat physical problems.. so whatever is going on with a person physically now... there could be a medical cure/fix for it 2 years down the line...

To look into the future.. and say "I will die from the effects of my eating disorder" - I believe... that I cannot say that...

If.. I look at my son... who is now 23.... at 13 years old he experienced severe problems with his lungs - from a defect... so at 13.. thru... 16 in and out of hospital...for week/ two weeks at a time... then... he was the first to receive a brand new surgery - it was taped for training purposes so others could benefit from the knowledge... and they were able to correct the defect..
What was available when he was 17... was not available at 13.. and at 23.. he is healthy..

My Mom... had reumatic fever when she was 16... this was way back in a day and time when there were no "fixes"... bedrest for a full year - her heart was damaged... severely.... and it was thought that would certainly in her lifetime... to someday be the cause of her death - the effects of the reumatic fever....

But it was not.... she lived a "limited" life that is true... but she had 2 daughters... and her death at 82... was not from the effects of the reumatic fever....it was from something else...

So my hope... with this post... is to give you some new perspective... to give you hope...

I have suffered from anerxioia... for 1 1/2 years....and recovered

I now have a binge/purge.... ED... and am working on my recovery...and I know I will recover from this.. and go on... I will not die from the effects of this ED... it will not win....