When I tell people I am in recovery from an eating disorder, they give me a puzzled look like I must be crazy. I have had many people judge me and act like I did not go through a real struggle that almost ended my life.Food had turned into my enemy and my fear.
I cannot say how, why, or exactly when, but an eating disorder had taken over my life and I needed help.Due to so little awareness as well as my own fear and shame, I never thought I had a problem.
Like so many, I thought an eating disorder meant consuming no food at all and one simply had to eat something in order to overcome it.
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