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Opinion: Do you think I need to go into residential care for my eating disorder or just see a shrink?
Question : Opinion: Do you think I need to go into residential care for my eating disorder or just see a shrink?
Okay so I’m going to condense the story a bit for you. I was at the Renfrew treatment center’s day program ( 5 days a week, 2 meals a day, outpatient program) for a while for my anorexia/bulimia. Although it gave me some insight, it didn’t stop my bulimia (I couldn’t properly restrict there, despite my best efforts). I stepped down to IOP ( 3 nights a week, 1 meal a day, outpatient program) and my anorexia flared up, as did my bulimia, alternatively. Well after a huge falling out with the center they told me that I could not come back unless I did their residential program. I’ve been alternatively restricting and binging/purging since I left. I’ve been considering residential, but the problem is that I am 5’1.5 and 138lbs (whereas when I started and was 115lbs). I feel like if I go into residential with all of those really thin girls I will literally be like the gorilla in the room. What do you think I should do?
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Answer by Lila
There is nothing more important than your life and if you keep this up you will lose it. It would be the best decision that you may ever make for yourself to be treated inpatient. Inpatients are very understanding and are not going to look at you the way that you think. They have learned skills that you haven’t that can help you. It would be invaluable for you to participate inpatient. I hope that you will make the right decision so that you can have the ability to live a happy and productive life as you deserve.
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#2 written by Judy & Charlie 1 year ago
I think you are looking at this situation from the wrong perspective.
Don’t think about the other people you will be hospitalized with. Some of them may be so ill from anorexia that their teeth and hair have fallen out and they are barely able to walk or get around from self starvation. I’m sure that your healthy 138 lbs and good health will be their envy…but don’t think about those poor souls.
Here are the facts of life….you are non compliant and you can’t make it on an outpatient basis. To stabilize yourself and get your eating disorder under control, the people at Renfrew are saying you must be an inpatient…outpatient isn’t going to cut it. It’s not working for you.
This is serious.
Don’t let this disease get any worse. Take care of yourself and get healthy in your mind and body.
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seeing that your weight is not at a dangerously low level perhaps a pschologist could help you.
When you are dangerously underweight you need to be forced to eat, as you are in a pretty healthy zone at the moment it may well be a good time to get down to the root cause of your eating disorder and work on this.
A psychologist will be able to help you with all the emotional issues and maybe banish the eating disorder for ever and give you a happy life to look forward to. Rather than treating the symptoms (making you eat) get to the root cause so you will want to eat and be happy with your body image.