Eating disorders and identity

I made this video because when you start to recover from an eating disorder, it's scary to think "Who am I if I'm not anorexic anymore?"

Sometimes it feels like the eating disorder has swallowed up your entire identity and you don't know what else of you is left if you give up the disorder.

Creating your identity without the disorder is one of the most important and rewarding parts of recovery.

Song: Send me on my way by Rusted Root

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Tags:

• eating
• disorder
• recovery
• anorexia
• nervosa
• bulimia
• Holding0n
• identity

[pandaloveX37]

my parents are making me go to some weird hospital place for and eating disorder i don't want to go!

[Holding0n]

Wow, that sounds really scary. Your parents must be very worried about you if they are sending you to hospital. It can be hard to accept that you have an eating disorder, it definately was hard for me. I didn't want to give up my anorexia but it was making me really sick. The side effects of anorexia are so dangerous, a lot of people die from it so getting the right help is really important. Hang in there and be brave, you will get through this.

<3 Kit

[pandaloveX37]

i am getting better with my friends i still have problems accepting my body!

[Holding0n]

It's so great to hear that you have friends around you to help you with recovery. Accepting your body at a healthy weight is one of the hardest parts of recovery, but it does get easier. For me, I found that once my health improved it was like the real me began to emerge and I no longer needed to look really small and sick in order to feel good about myself. I really hope you can learn to love your body, keep fighting!

<3 Kit

[Bosmyer]

what is this songs name? and who is it by?

[Holding0n]

The song is Send me on my way by Rusted Root

[chocolatekiss608]

i love all of your videos so so much, they give much needed encouragement right when i need it. thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

[pinkishchicaa]

you're such an amazing person, & such a good example of all a person can be without an eating dissorder.

instead of spending your time counting calories, excersising, and essentially killing yourself, you're helping hunderds and hunderds of people you don't even know.

[xomg123dcggx]

Ice age music <3

[crippledwing]

this is an awesome video, and usually i would watch the first 30secs of a recovery video and change to a thinspo video..i watched a half of it. i like the way you worded things instead of just saying "you lose your teeth" "your hair falls out" "you get osteoperosis" its like "YEAH WE ALL KNOW THAT", thanks but im not ready for recovery.

[crystalynn2006]

i love this,, because it is true i had my eating disorder from the time i was 11 i am now 22 i had to stop it for my kids but when i started to get better i had no clue who i was, i had always been with the eating disorder it was who i was. i still dont know who i am or what i am suppose to be? i hate my ed for doing this too me. i love this video thanks it helps when i think i am slipping back to bad habits. it reminds me of my hate for the disorder.

[bittersweetlies]

This made me smile today.

Thankyou!!!

xxx

[minimal1975]

i agree!!! i dunno wot i would do without them, when it sometimes feels like everyone else around me is 'testing' me with a negative vibe/vibes :)

[bubbaondalose]

my parents are making me see a shrink and then they are making me take anti depresent pills i hate it so much. y cant they just let me be. im fine and i look fine too

[pandaloveX37]

i seriously hate this!