Month: August 2021

I feel scared to write about this. Not everyone with an eating disorder struggles with exercise but it is a major component for me that I’ve found extremely complex to tackle and deal with. It’s very much still a live issue for me and almost harder than the food restriction element in some ways. Exercise… Continue reading Exercise and Virtue

CW: discussion of eating disorder behaviours such as restriction and binging in detail, suicidal ideation, substance misuse. No specific mention of numbers First written in July. Why did I decide to recover? What does it mean to ‘recover’ from an eating disorder? In many ways, I am not the most qualified person to answer that… Continue reading What recovery feels like: A beginners guide

TW: for discussion of psychosis, hallucinations, self-harm, suicidal ideation/attempts/actual suicide (only mentions no detail), ED behaviours (no figures) First written on 31/07/21 As my first ever post I wanted to provide a bit of context and description of what I mean when I say I am mentally ill, anorexic or Mad TM. The use of… Continue reading My particular brand of Madness TM