Question : Opinion Poll: 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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Best answer:

Answer by The Unshushable
Anorexia doesn’t flare up, it’s not a rash. Obviously you need to be in a treatment facility where you can get all the attention you need, because you were lacking it in your day to day life and started this ridiculous habit to begin with.