I think it is hard at this age (18-20~) to realize that an eating disorder is a SERIOUS illness. You are not invincible. Take your eating DISORDER seriously, and make it a priority to cure yourself from it. As a student who developed anorexia during college, kept it for freshman and sophomore year, and started healing from it junior year. I totally agree with this. College was for me, a place where I found myself constantly comparing myself with others, fearing the freshman fifteen, seeing everyone go to the gym and feeling that I should go too, and feeling the constant pressure to be productive and perfect in my academics and all other aspects of my life. No wonder I developed an eating disorder! Going through college with an active eating disorder is not fun; you isolate yourself. Going to college trying to recover too is not fun because you are dealing with brain fog and body and identity problems that it is hard to study and maintain friendships. I too wish college was different for me, but after working hard on recovery, I have a final year to try to experience college for what it is meant to be. Not saying I am 100% recovered yet, but I am getting there. Recovery truly takes LOTS of time and energy, and if the pressure of performing or being amongst peers in college was gone while I finish recovery, I am sure I would feel and do a lot better.
AGREE one hundred percent! I went at 17 and it was AWFUL. I dropped out, got help, returned two years later and LOVED it. I have those forever friends and three and a half degrees now. HELP first! Good egg Tabitha! xoxoxox
This is a decision I've had to make regarding graduate school. School is so important to me but I relapsed and knew that stress drives my eating disorder. Heck, the eating disorder took over so much that I was losing my ability to focus on what I was passionate about. Thanks to taking a step back and entering recovery treatment I feel like my passion for life is returning. School will always be there to go back to so long as you have your health.
Such a poignant subject for me... I ended up deferring my uni place on application because I had a feeling about something and I would need that space. At the time I didn't know what exactly I had ahead of me, but I couldn't have been more right in following my gut. I had a major relapse in my anorexia 2 months before I was due to sit my A Levels, which forced me to drop out of school. I'm now 2 months into recovery, not doing too badly all things considered (my sister is also severely anorexic), and I'm desperately hoping that I can keep going onwards and upwards. I have a confirmed uni place for 2019 and I really hope this is my time to really turn life around once and for all. This has just taught me: be really honest with yourself and trust your true gut feelings with these things xx
I tried doing a Teacher training degree with a severe eating disorder. It was HELL. I couldn't concentrate on my lectures, I was permanently cold, the seats were too hard for my bony bum. Lectures were bloody uncomfortable. I was completely exhausted as I had to travel on 2 busses there and back. I lived alone. I had no real friends and was so so depressed anxious and lonely. My Ed spiralled out of control and ended up having to drop out and ended up in hospital. I shouldn't have gone when I did. I should have deferred for a year, done recovery or at least got to a healthier place and then gone. It's one of my biggest regrets in life as after a 3yr hospital admission, stuck on a Section 3 I lost the confidence and enthusiasm to ever go back 😔
I'm going to university in a months time, I have struggled with anorexia since the age of 12, I'm now 19. I have already taken a gap year and though I'm in a better place I'm still underweight and my thinking certainly isnt normal. I'm absolutely terrified beyond belief, however all I can say is I have to continue with my life. If i don't go I'm going to stay around the same place, stuck in the same routine and what would I feel that year with. I'm so scared and I feel like it's going to be a make or break situation. I'm going to make it a "make" situation.
I got my ED in my first year of university and I was still living at home. And I always put school first. Now I have a crappy job I'm trying to balance with recovery. And it's not working. But I feel such guilt in quitting. Because I'm not sick enough blah blah classic ED stuff.
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I think it is hard at this age (18-20~) to realize that an eating disorder is a SERIOUS illness. You are not invincible. Take your eating DISORDER seriously, and make it a priority to cure yourself from it. As a student who developed anorexia during college, kept it for freshman and sophomore year, and started healing from it junior year. I totally agree with this.
College was for me, a place where I found myself constantly comparing myself with others, fearing the freshman fifteen, seeing everyone go to the gym and feeling that I should go too, and feeling the constant pressure to be productive and perfect in my academics and all other aspects of my life. No wonder I developed an eating disorder!
Going through college with an active eating disorder is not fun; you isolate yourself. Going to college trying to recover too is not fun because you are dealing with brain fog and body and identity problems that it is hard to study and maintain friendships. I too wish college was different for me, but after working hard on recovery, I have a final year to try to experience college for what it is meant to be.
Not saying I am 100% recovered yet, but I am getting there. Recovery truly takes LOTS of time and energy, and if the pressure of performing or being amongst peers in college was gone while I finish recovery, I am sure I would feel and do a lot better.
AGREE one hundred percent! I went at 17 and it was AWFUL. I dropped out, got help, returned two years later and LOVED it. I have those forever friends and three and a half degrees now. HELP first! Good egg Tabitha! xoxoxox
This is a decision I've had to make regarding graduate school. School is so important to me but I relapsed and knew that stress drives my eating disorder. Heck, the eating disorder took over so much that I was losing my ability to focus on what I was passionate about. Thanks to taking a step back and entering recovery treatment I feel like my passion for life is returning. School will always be there to go back to so long as you have your health.
Such a poignant subject for me... I ended up deferring my uni place on application because I had a feeling about something and I would need that space. At the time I didn't know what exactly I had ahead of me, but I couldn't have been more right in following my gut. I had a major relapse in my anorexia 2 months before I was due to sit my A Levels, which forced me to drop out of school.
I'm now 2 months into recovery, not doing too badly all things considered (my sister is also severely anorexic), and I'm desperately hoping that I can keep going onwards and upwards. I have a confirmed uni place for 2019 and I really hope this is my time to really turn life around once and for all.
This has just taught me: be really honest with yourself and trust your true gut feelings with these things xx
I tried doing a Teacher training degree with a severe eating disorder. It was HELL. I couldn't concentrate on my lectures, I was permanently cold, the seats were too hard for my bony bum. Lectures were bloody uncomfortable. I was completely exhausted as I had to travel on 2 busses there and back. I lived alone. I had no real friends and was so so depressed anxious and lonely. My Ed spiralled out of control and ended up having to drop out and ended up in hospital. I shouldn't have gone when I did. I should have deferred for a year, done recovery or at least got to a healthier place and then gone. It's one of my biggest regrets in life as after a 3yr hospital admission, stuck on a Section 3 I lost the confidence and enthusiasm to ever go back 😔
I'm going to university in a months time, I have struggled with anorexia since the age of 12, I'm now 19. I have already taken a gap year and though I'm in a better place I'm still underweight and my thinking certainly isnt normal. I'm absolutely terrified beyond belief, however all I can say is I have to continue with my life. If i don't go I'm going to stay around the same place, stuck in the same routine and what would I feel that year with. I'm so scared and I feel like it's going to be a make or break situation. I'm going to make it a "make" situation.
Any videos on working as an adult recovering? Advice on taking a break? Keep going and trying to make it part of recovery routine?
I got my ED in my first year of university and I was still living at home. And I always put school first. Now I have a crappy job I'm trying to balance with recovery. And it's not working. But I feel such guilt in quitting. Because I'm not sick enough blah blah classic ED stuff.
Wheres the english chocolate bars and crisps :) thats really good advice its hard to put health 1st sometimes
Eaten them all. Need to go back to UK and get more!