If you suspect you, a family member or friend has an eating disorder, contact Beat on 0808 801 0677 or at help@beateatingdisorders.org.uk, for information and advice on the best way to get appropriate treatment.
I came to realise that gaining weight was my way out of this mental torture, as the brain needs nourishment to think clearly.
Through this, I came to realise that gaining weight was my way out of this mental torture, as the brain needs nourishment to think clearly.
In my mid-twenties I moved cities to start my first job and was quite reclusive, unable to socialise because of my strict gym regimes and fear of eating anything other than my safe foods in the environment of my flat, which I rented alone.
They told me the eating disorder unit had a bed waiting for me, insisting I needed to go into inpatient treatment.
