recovery buddy - added: Sun, Feb 22 02:25 AM

Hello! I have been battling both anorexia and bulimia and have been in treatment a few times.  I currently see a therapist weekly as well.  And you are right...Insurance/money makes it hard to stay in a treatment center long enough to make a lasting result.  I am pretty serious about getting into steady recovery but of course am having trouble.  Maybe we can set goals for ourselves and hold ourselves accountable to eachother.  Its alot easier when you are not doing this alone.  At least for me it helps when someone walks along side with me where we can do it together.  As long as you are also serious about recovery...would you be interested in this?

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Hello Jenny. :) - added: Sat, Feb 21 02:31 PM

I read your whole profile and I really love that you wrote it.

I think that I understand you because I see a lot of myself in your stories.

I'm not an expert on the whole psychology of eating disorder but I don't think that it's a coincidence that we both "not love ourselves". I don't believe that we must love ourselves first to love someone els. But no matter how surrounded by love we are (family, friends, lover) there is a very present lack of love inside of us. I think that this is the "emptiness" that we are trying to fill with food.

If this is the case, we must go to the root of the problem, this lack of self-love to fix the disorder. Unfortunately I haven't found a way yet to love myself, honestly love myself. I don't hate myself though, I'm even fine with myself.

So Jenny, welcome in the program, I hope you'll learn more about yourself and also change for good. I stopped the program at Day 20 but I truly learned a lot from Tools to life. Right now, I am still having these binges but I am fully aware that I am choosing to do this, that I am not a victim and that I am not "too weak" to resist. I also accept the consequences.

Please, continue to update us on your journey. ;)

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