I suffered from anorexia from the time I was 11 to 36. I went into treatment 3 times, for months at a time. Severe depression and the circumstances at home were my underlying causes. After the first treatment, my family came together emotionally for the first time. They participated vigorously in my second treatment. As I entered for the third time, I came down with an unknown virus and my liver failed. I needed a transplant at the age of 21. I told myself I didn't have time for an eating disorder anylonger. Even though I had flirted with death for so many years, the transplant made my mortality real.
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I suffered from anorexia from the time I was 11 to 36. I went into treatment 3 times, for months at a time. Severe depression and the circumstances at home were my underlying causes. After the first treatment, my family came together emotionally for the first time. They participated vigorously in my second treatment. As I entered for the third time, I came down with an unknown virus and my liver failed. I needed a transplant at the age of 21. I told myself I didn't have time for an eating disorder anylonger. Even though I had flirted with death for so many years, the transplant made my mortality real.
February 25, 2009 - 1:18amThis Comment
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