Recovery

Recovery is possible. If you want to recover, you can and will recover.

About 80 percent of people with eating disorders who seek treatment either recover completely or make significant progress. Sadly, the rest remain chronic sufferers or they die.

How long does recovery take?

Try not to rush your recovery. Recovery takes time and it can be a long road, but it is a road worth taking. It takes however long it takes, and is different for each individual.

Recovery is a difficult process, it requires major commitments to

• · get into treatment
• · stay in treatment
• · make necessary lifestyle changes
• · resolve the underlying psychological and emotional issues that led to the disorder

Relapses, especially in the beginning, are normal and to be expected. There is no shame in them. They are learning experiences that point out where more work needs to be done.

The Goal of Recovery

Authentic human beings may be attractive — there is no law that says they have to be ugly — but physical attributes are their least important qualities. Authentic human beings make a lasting impact, quietly or dramatically, on people they meet. They have personal presence. They are solid, intelligent, humorous, sexy and full of life. They are reliable, strong, confident and competent. They are respected, and they respect themselves. This is the goal of treatment — not just to eat normally, important as that is, but also to develop into a person of worth and substance

Don’t Weigh Your Self-Esteem. It’s What’s Inside That Counts!