My Eating Disorder

I entered treatment for my own struggle with anorexia in February 2014. Over a 10 year period, I had time periods where I was happy and healthy, while others I was deep in my disorder restricting myself to less than 500 calories a day. After approximately 12 weeks in treatment at McCallum Place in St Louis, I completed treatment and now am maintaining a healthier, happier life. Those 12 weeks were some of the best and the worst of my life. 10 hours a day, 7 days a week of treatment was completely overwhelming. I completed treatment in late April 2014. I returned to work that June and did my best to stay in recovery, but struggled with balancing my responsibilities to my job and to myself. I returned to intensive outpatient treatment from August to November 2014. Now, today, I can say I am in recovery and doing the best that I can one day at a time. I still have days where I slip up and lapse on behaviors, but I continue to see my treatment team weekly. When these things happen, the response I get from friends and family, "You Don't Want to Go Back to Treatment, Do You?" This is my way of staying accountable and working my way through ED recovery