Anorexia With Other Mental Health Problems Posted: 05-31-07 18:05pm
I currently have the diagnosis of:
- Anorexia Nervosa: restrictive subtype
- Major Depressive Disorder with many
attempts of suicide
- Generalized Anxiety
- Borderline Personality disorder
- anemia, acid reflux
I am 5'1". And I'm 80 lbs. I was told my
healthy weight would be around 110 or so.
People tell me I am very skinny and
unhealthy looking and pale all the time. I
have fainted many times with regards to
not eating or dehydration. I've been to
emergency rooms a lot of times. Avg I
would say about 1 or 2 times per week.
I'm getting admitted in 2 weeks into a
extra care unit for renourishment designed
for people with eating disorders. I will
be tube fed and expected to try to eat
something. I will also be receiving IV
fluids and mineral/vitamins.
With my extensive mental/physical
problems, and me being a strict
vegetarian, my care team says my condition
doesn't look promising and may require
longer than the usual admission time which
is 3 weeks. I have a super high
metabolism. I lose weight when I sleep.
And I've been losing more weight lately
because of stress. I take a lot of
medications for my psychiatric illnesses
as well for my acid reflux problem.
I've been anorexic for about 5 years, but
never got diagnosed of it until about 3
months ago because it wasn't really full
blown until now.
I have mixed feelings of being admitted
into the hospital. I'm very anxious and
scared and also not eating as much, though
I already don't eat much. I am worried
about a lot of things. With a lot of
sleeping medications, I am not able to
fall asleep.
I'm torn between wanting to get better and
knowing I need treatment and wanting to
just leave it as it is and fade away
slowly. I've been in the hospital for
psychiatric treatment for 6 months last
year, and I'm not really looking forward
to this admission, because I know it will
be long, but maybe not quite as long as 6
months. I don't want to spend my 19th
birthday in the hospital again as I did
with my 18th birthday.
I don't know if this helps anyone to know
that they are not alone. I am open and
free to talk to anyone in need. I also
want to say that, as a supporter, I truly
wish to support everyone and help others
deal with health problems.
I wish you the best and hope you do
recover and receive the treatment you
need, recovery is hard and i hope while
in treatment u start wanting to recover,
for it to work you have to want it,
otherwise its a waste of time and money ya
know. If your not ready to recover its
harder to recover so i hpe that your mind
switches and u get into recovery mode, its
gonna be a long hard road but well worth
it in the end.
Good Luck
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cln1812
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Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 527 Location: La Porte, TX
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Posted: 06-01-07 11:47am
Good luck! Recovery is difficult, but so
worth it. I have been recovered from
anorexia for 7 years now. My low weight
was 80 lb. as well. I'm 5'4". I know I
felt horrible at that time, but I was
scared to recover and scared of who I
would be without the ED. I'm glad I gave
recovery a chance because I feel so much
better nowadays. Even when your situation
is bad, it's never hopeless. You have to
really want recovery for it to work;
however, I did find that gaining a bit of
weight also helped my distorted thinking
that I needed to keep losing weight when I
was at the point where losing more weight
would have been deadly.
Once you recover, you can have an actual
life again. I hate that I waited so long
to get help because I knew what I was
doing wasn't normal. I wasted some of the
best years of my life (all of my college
years, including my 21st birthday) with
this disease.
But recovery is possible, and it's so
worth it!
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rocks
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 06-10-08 11:04am
You may be allergic to a very common
bacteria that is in almost all drinking
water. It can cause acid reflux and make
you feel bloated, too. I think it is
called helicobacter pryloria. It is a
simple matter to find out if this is your
problem. Just stop drinking water that is
not boiled. chlorination does not destroy
it unless you use enough chlorine to make
the water unsafe to drink. Quite often
reconstituted fruit juice contains this
bacteria. Bottled water is also full of
this bacteria. Most people are not
bothered by it.
