Struggling...

[broken.figurine]

Hi. This is my first post, so I'll do a short intro here for anyone who hasn't read my introduction thread.

I'm Aislinn, or Aisli as most of my friends call me. I'm sixteen years old and have an identical twin sister, Keegan.

I've been suffering from anorexia and bulimia, or mostly just anorexia with purging tendencies. I don't binge much. Anyways, I've been suffering with it for about four or five years now, since shortly after my little sister Kaley got sick with leukemia. I know that sounds really young for an eating disorder to start, but it felt like I grew up really quick after Kaley got sick.

I've done inpatient treatment twice so far, but I keep relapsing. It's hard, and I know it's hard on my family. I want to be okay for them, but I really struggle. I've been working on a lot of body image exercises, and Keegan was a big help with them for a while. She's pregnant right now though so she hadn't been able to serve as my "healthy body" mirror.

I don't know. I'm just having a hard time with my eating disorder now and wanted to post to introduce myself some.

[ErykaInspire.]

Eating Disorders are very difficult to overcome, but it is possible. Talk to your parents more, let them know that you're trying your hardest. Boosting your confidence in stopping would help your devotion. Try to keep the goal in mind, and don't lose sight of it.

Body exercises are great, but sometimes they just show you who you WANT to be, compared to who you arn't. Sometimes you might think it's helping when it could be lowering your outlook on your self-image.

Going to Recovery Camps would be a great idea. I went to a Grief Week when I was going through the 2nd year of chronic depression. It really helped alot, I'd definitely suggest it.

I hope my advice is atleast kinda helping, I've never been through an eating disorder THIS bad, so I can't give you personal advice. PM me if you ever need to talk<3

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[Beautiful Obsession]

Hiyaa.. Welcome To VT:D

Well first of all, its going to be hard to get over an eating disorder expecially scene as its been going on for so long, but trust me, its possible, you need to go and see a councler and make often visits which will help alot, you need to make an effort with your family, remember its going to be hard for them aswell watching there baby girl suffer with this illness,, its not going to happen over night babee but trust me you will get better if you try..

Pm me if you wanna talk.. xx

[Fallen_embers]

I'm in this recovery programme for an eating disorder. Its sort of like a camp thing, but were all together in this block of flats sort of thing, and theres staff about 24/7. meh >.<
But it's great because they have rules, like you have set meal times that you have to attend and such, you're not allowed to use the bathroom until 30minutes after you've eaten ect. And it's really hard to go cold turkey and I do go crazy sometimes and refuse stuff but I can feel it working, it's so hard to explain. But I know it will be worth it when I'm better.

But you will relapse a few times before you get better. Its all about being able to pick yourself back up and have another go, keep trying and be strong. Its worth it at the end. I know it's hard :( *hug*
I'm here if ever you want to talk, PM me ;P