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Dec 04, 2012 at 04:36 AM
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There will never be any success stories.
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Apr 27, 2013 at 02:07 PM
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I'm sorry you feel that way. Hope this message finds you well.
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May 28, 2013 at 08:00 AM
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I'm sorry you feel that way too. I had severe anorexia for years and I have RECOVERED. I cannot take full credit--I had good therapy along the way, meds, and a mentor... It IS possible!
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Feb 02, 2014 at 10:42 PM
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It can be unbelievably frustrating, many many people know that (myself included). But there ARE success stories. There is help. Don't let your ED control you! Because you CAN do this!
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Feb 11, 2014 at 02:21 AM
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not to be negative- but I think it's kind of depressing how the success stories sub-forum has only like 10 threads, where the others each have like 3 pages of posts...I might feel more hopeful if there were a few more success stories :/
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Feb 24, 2014 at 01:46 AM
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In response to coolbeans: i think more people visit forums who need support than people who are successfully recovered, that's all.
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Mar 22, 2014 at 02:07 PM
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Maybe it is because everyone's idea of success is different. I feel because I have made it 13 days bulimic free(with no desire at all to purge)that I am successful in this moment. What does recovery look like to you? I am going to have to take the idea of recovery in small successful pieces.
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Apr 05, 2014 at 09:33 PM
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It's a long, hard road but it is possible to be successful, just like a previous poster had said, it may be about how you define your own success. I was hospitalized when I was 12 for anorexia. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I began to feel more comfortable with confronting my issues and stopped waging an endless battle with my body. I'm 25 now and have no more intrusive, obsessive thoughts about food/body. Counseling and finding healthy outlets for my anxiety (including writing). It may have also been my personal/cultural circumstances as well since in my family (first generation Asian Americans & my mom became a single parent with 4 kids), stability became dependent on me getting better. And so I felt a deep sense of obligation to work on my recovery for my family. So I accomplished my recovery in steps. First success was getting out of the hospital. Then success was eating meat again. Then it was putting away the scale...and on and on. I do hope that you find your measures and motivations for success because its possible, not easy, but possible.
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Sep 23, 2014 at 07:54 PM
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Sep 23, 2014 at 07:56 PM
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oh and by the way, the years of not throwing up I absolutely take credit for. I quit completely on my own, without even a medicine. So if a shrink or therapist out there who I have paid in the thousands by now were ever to claim credit I would get furious -- they did NO good, EVER. I have relapsed pretty badly recently, and I AM currently seeing a shrink. Is it helping? HECK NO. I think most doctors are utter bs and I just wish, one time, they would honestly admit how pathetic they are.
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Sep 23, 2014 at 07:58 PM
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