I started feeling very depressed around the age of twelve/thirteen. My feelings of worthlessness and extreme sadness eventually led me to self-harm, which my father and mother discovered when I was about fifteen years old. What I initially perceived as a lack of concern for my well-being, I now know was actually my parents's lack of knowledge about...
Let me start by saying that your body LOVES you. It will literally fight to the death to keep you alive, no matter what you do to it. Our bodies have always been this way, even since the time of cave people. Back then, food wasn't always consistently available and, during times of famine, the human body would compensate for...
1. It's not a shame that I gained the weight back
I started treatment for my eating disorder in October of 2017. After graduating from Balance NYC's day program and subsequent outpatient program, I found myself yet again in treatment in the summer of 2018. This time, in residential at Monte Nido Rivertowns. At the time it felt like the worst thing that could ever happen to me...