When you are recovering you picture yourself to be healed immediately, you never imagine yourself doing the small steps resulting in recovery. The small steps are what you have to do in order to reach the ultimate destination. We only ever do this when it comes to our mental health, we take one tiny step and then assume that we don’t need to carry on being gentle, we rush into recovery without ever taking the time to recover. It’s like breaking your leg. When you break your leg you go to the hospital, get a cast put on, then get crutches. You would not just show up to the hospital, realize you have broke your leg and then go home. You would sit and wait and get the full help you need. Treat your mental health as if it was a broken leg. Do not leave yourself half recovering, take each little step one foot at a time and eventually you will feel ok again.
After a 5 year struggle with anorexia (with purging tendencies), depression, self harm and over exercising I have now been recovered for 4 years and i use my blog to help others in the same situation i once was. I am now a happy and positive person who wants to inspire those struggling to choose recovery and to take control over life and happiness again!
wise words. Thing is once I`ve chosen to recover I want it now - not months down the line. Sometimes progress seems so slow and changes to the mealplan cannot just happen, they have to be worked out and implemented slowly ... and it all gets frustrating at times, especially when I get stuck in the one step forward two steps back scenario.
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