When I was just 13 years old, I was diagnosed with an eating disorder and entered an outpatient program for children and adolescents with eating disorders.
What should have been my last year of middle school before entering high school that following year signaled the beginning of a string of long-term institutionalization.
The amount of complex trauma that long-term institutionalization results in is not often talked about. We as a society tend to associate hospitals with healing and recovery: places of hope and safety.
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