This blog is is all about anorexia and friendships. I have always wanted to have best friends. To have a few best friends and importantly, to be someone else’s best friend is something I have always longed for. But most of my teenage years were spent on the edge looking in. However, another relationship was …
Trying to get funding for NHS treatment for eating disorders is a task that often seems impossible to achieve. You have to be knocking on deaths door before you are deemed ill enough, or deserving enough for hospitalisation and treatment. And by deaths door I do literally mean deaths door. On all my admissions I …
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Dreams. Can they ever become reality? When I was very young I dreamt of being a pop star. But I soon realised that my lack of singing ability meant this dream was never going to happen. No matter how hard I tried to be Baby Spice, I had to accept that pop stardom was not …
This week has been a tale of two halves. Some bits really bad and some bits really good. There have been some positives in anorexia recovery but, me being me, I dwell on the negatives. The crap days at work, the collapsed cake, the worry I’ve done something wrong. This week its felt like the …
The running track…what used to be my second home for the best part of my teenage years. I started in Year 7, aged 12 and absolutely loved it. I was fast and I just loved running. It became more serious when I was about 14. There was rarely a day in the week when I …
Anorexia. In the game that is life it’s like playing Monopoly. Living with anorexia is being locked up in jail. You don’t pass ‘Go’, you can’t take a ‘Chance’, you can’t live life and experience things other people do. But does it have to be a life sentence? I was diagnosed with anorexia aged 19 …