A great friend of mine found an article on anorexia and sent it to me... Some of the statistics were hard to believe and quite frightning...it has a 15% mortality rate, carries the highest suicide rate of all psychiatric illness, and has a 50% relapse rate in the first year after treatment.
But my favorite part of the article was this quote which touched very close to home... I wish that everyone around me could understand this...
"There has been a little bit of a feeling that all an anorexic needs to do to get better is start eating, but it is nowhere near that simple," he says. "Nobody would say [to a psychotic] that they should just stop hallucinating."
Me helping and hearing myself to recovery from anorexia.
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great quote...I understand and I know it's not that easy. It takes time...and I'm here for the long haul.
I’m not sure what you need right now, but I know this doesn’t define you. I haven’t talked to you about it not because I don’t care, but because I know this doesn’t define you, and I know that everyone keeps focusing on this. Just know that if you feel like you want to talk to me about it you can, and if you just want to go catch a movie I’m hear for that to.
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