Treatment & Recovery.
Although eating disorders affect your body physically, this problem is psychological. And that means you can't just take a Tylenol or a a prescribed medication. Therefor, treatment is also psychological. Thankfully, there are many eating disorder treatment centers more than willing to help those in need. Recovery is a great and is proven to work, that even celebrities have gone through it successfully, like the author of "How to Rock Glasses and Braces", Meg Haston.
In 2011, Meg wrote a novel called "How to Rock Glasses and Braces", which later turned into a series on Nickelodeon. She became very successful, but that same year Meg checked into a Eating Disorder Recovery Center in Arizona. But she was diagnosed with Anorexia, she was not as bad as other women around her. "In and around the lodge, these women spend their hours between
individual and group therapy sessions, equine and art therapy, and meals
and snacks. I watch them. Crossing the lawn, reading and journaling
beneath the sparse palm trees that border the lodge, are women thinner
than me."
At the recovery centers, psychiatrist and dieticians work hard to get girls to understand that they can eat whatever they desire and should enjoy it as they eat it. "Our dietitian
explains: We are to take a small amount of our favorite foods typical of
a binge. We are meant to taste it, to show ourselves that we are
capable of enjoying food, neither avoiding it entirely nor consuming all
of it. For many psychologically healthy women, such a task might be
enjoyable. The smells might evoke pleasant memories of time with family
or friends. Special occasions. But I am instantly transported back to my
worst binge/purge episode in recent months." explains Meg. Excersises like these are meant to help girls get back to normal.
This eating disorders do not go away right away, they take time and dedication before they are officially cleared from our body. " I am learning to celebrate my identity as a writer, a daughter, and a
sister, instead of a sick woman. To nurture with gratitude a body that
can move and make love and, should I choose, bear a child. I am a
Recovering Woman who makes a choice for health every day. Because there
is no other choice." And if Meg Hatson was able to push through, and still fight her eating disorder, anyone else can. But at the end of the day, the decision is up to the victim whether to push through or not.
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