“Just Make Her Eat”
“Dear God, please just let me wake up in the morning.” I weakly said that before I’d drift into a fitful sleep every night for weeks as I was deteriorating from a relapse of starving and purging. I...
View ArticleStarving At 35,000 Feet
I’d been put on a plane in San Antonio en route to Los Angeles, via Houston (ascend x 2 and descend x 2…no direct flight). I don’t like to fly, and had taken a Benadryl to get me past the jitters. I’d...
View ArticleRiding The Scale: The Eating Disorder Roller Coaster
Eating disorders don’t always fit into nice little diagnostic criteria. There are as many variations of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder/compulsive overeating, and combinations of those as...
View ArticleIntervention and Treatment Memories
I gained a lot of weight during the time I was on chemo for leukemia. It’s been very hard to get rid of it, as I’m also perimenopausal, and limited physically as far as what activity I can safely do....
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