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Stand For Me and my eating disorder

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available in Welsh (Cymraeg).In 2019, I was discharged from hospital for the eighth – and hopefully final – time. I have battled anorexia for 18 years and, while I am now in recovery, it has felt as if I have been in an abusive relationship with my own mind.Anorexia Nervosa first arrived on the scene when I was nine years old.

My parents divorced when I was very young and I found the new, different dynamic difficult to comprehend. My father maintained a good relationship with my brother but not with me.

I soon realised that the only thing I could control was what I ate. Anorexia felt like a companion and a trusted friend. I first went to see the doctor when I was 11.

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