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EJ
December 4, 2000

I was anorexic for 6 years and in all honesty they were the worst years of my life. At a time when I should have been enjoying my teenage years I was to obsessed with food and purging to even care what other things were goign on around me.

My life changed on the 9th of October, 1999 when I was admitted into the Phoenix Centre, a hospitl for adoloescents wiht eating disorders which I belive is on the treatment finder. Everyday I spent there was very hard in the beginning. I would scream and shout and then after about 2 months it just clicked. I had to hit the bottom to come back up. Anorexia became a way of life, but it was if something had taken over all my rational thought and the anorexia was who I'd become. I worked so hard and now a year later I am still in recovery. I have not purged for a whole year and I have maintained a target weight for the same amount of time.

For me the solution to beating my eating disorder was to seprate myself from it, to put me on one side and the anorexia on the other, and stop seeing them as one person. Anorexia is like your worst enemy and your best friend all in one, but it's when you start to realise that your so-called best friend is trying to kill you that you start fighting back.

I just want to say that I am not very good at writing this sort of thing and so I will finish here. I wish you all the love in the world for we are all specail people. Love to you all.

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