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Not because I thought she was a liar, but because our beautiful daughters physical and mental health takes precedence over everything. I wish I had approached her school earlier and checked out whether she was eating her lunch or if her behaviour or participation at school had changed. If you feel things are changing, get help as early as possible. You know your child better than anyone else. When asked “what do you wish you had known…” that you didn’t during the early months of her ED, I would say quite clearly… “trust your instincts as a parent”. We sought support from Pause and she reluctantly spoke to a worker there who gave her reassurance that she was not alone with being worried about her body shape and size.Īn FTB body image group helped her to slowly and gently begin to recognise the connections with external pressures like social media, celebrity culture and body image. She reassured us that she was eating her school lunch and as she ate her dinner with us in the evening we responded to the changes in her body shape and size in a supportive way. We felt, as her mum and dad, that our carefree, lively, funny and easy-going little girl was slowly being replaced by a much sadder person, with less energy, someone who spent time on her own and withdrawn from friends. She wrote out recipes, spent hours creating beautifully crafted recipe pages, all for food she had no intention of eating. However over the next 3-4 months, she moved slowly and steadily through healthy eating onto increased exercise and latterly a situation where she talked about food incessantly. Initially I thought she was just on a healthy eating drive, cutting out “bad food” and eating regular, healthy meals. Our journey to the ED service started about 6 months ago when she began to develop a fixation with food. I say “our” eating disorder (ED) as reflecting back on our experiences as a family of four, we have had our own individual relationship with our youngest daughters ED. On a much more personal level, 2016 was the year that we as a family met our Eating Disorder.
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Many of us were pleased to see the back of 2016. We saw some crucial political decisions made and home and abroad that shocked us. It can escalate so quickly and is a very dangerous disorder.Ģ016 was a year that brought it’s challenged to the world. It is so important to speak up about your eating disorder and get help. I just got told “how stupid it’s only water” but to me it was more than water, it was poison dripping through my veins.īut after all these years of self-neglect I can finally say with the help of my amazing team around me I’ve overcome my eating disorder and am now weight restored. I still didn’t please the voices circulating in my head.įood was the enemy! On some days I would cry over drinking a glass of water scared it was going to make me gain weight. I would go days at a time without eating and what did I achieve? Nothing but pain and discomfort. It was the scariest time of my life and still haunts me now. I couldn’t eat in front of people in case they thought “wow, look at how fat she is”. I couldn’t go out and do normal things due to collapsing and exhaustion. My eating disorder consumed every single thought I had. I used to think weighing myself everyday was ‘normal’. Top tips for looking after your mental healthĪutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) AssessmentsĪs I step on those scales my minds screaming at me “you better have lost otherwise there’ll be problems”. Looking after your mental health this festive season Tips for looking after your mental health on results dayīoost your mental health during the school holidays Worried that someone is at risk of suicide
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