Thank you for writing on this topic Diane and Alison for clarifying a few points. I am recovering from an eating disorder that I have struggled with since I was eight but it went undiagnosed for years. I was in and out of the emergency room for numerous things throughout my child hood that doctors now link to the fact that I bounced between anorexia and bulimia for the majority of my life. At the time it was not something that is as openly talked about as it is now so much of my suffering was done in silence. It was not till I was a junior in college that one of my school doctors asked me the simple question, "Why are you so thin?" That anyone had ever even questioned my weight. Thankfully, I went to a large university that had an entire department devoted to eating disorders. Since I had already been in the emergency room three times that year because of heart and lung complications my doctors told me that I had two choices get better or die. The next day I started daily out patient treatment. Although it has taken years and been a tough journey filled with disappointment and relapses I can finally say that I am healthy. To all of those people out there who are not afraid to talk about it and who are not afraid to ask thank you.
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Thank you for writing on this topic Diane and Alison for clarifying a few points. I am recovering from an eating disorder that I have struggled with since I was eight but it went undiagnosed for years. I was in and out of the emergency room for numerous things throughout my child hood that doctors now link to the fact that I bounced between anorexia and bulimia for the majority of my life. At the time it was not something that is as openly talked about as it is now so much of my suffering was done in silence. It was not till I was a junior in college that one of my school doctors asked me the simple question, "Why are you so thin?" That anyone had ever even questioned my weight. Thankfully, I went to a large university that had an entire department devoted to eating disorders. Since I had already been in the emergency room three times that year because of heart and lung complications my doctors told me that I had two choices get better or die. The next day I started daily out patient treatment. Although it has taken years and been a tough journey filled with disappointment and relapses I can finally say that I am healthy. To all of those people out there who are not afraid to talk about it and who are not afraid to ask thank you.
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