DR MARIANNE MILLER
CARING EATING DISORDER TREATMENT IN SAN DIEGO AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON D.C. FOR ADULTS & TEENS
When Restrictive Eating Lasts for Years: Beyond Anorexia and the Path to Recovery
As an eating disorder therapist in San Diego, California, I've worked with people who began making meaningful progress after living with anorexia, atypical anorexia, ARFID, or another restrictive eating disorder for decades. Recovery didn't happen overnight, but it happened. They found more flexibility, more freedom, and a life that gradually became bigger than the eating disorder.
If you've been living with long-term restrictive eating, you are not alone. More importantly, you are not beyond help.
Five Details on Dodging Depression in Eating Disorder Recovery
Struggling with getting out of bed in the morning? Crying a lot and feeling lethargic? Struggling with finding pleasure in activities that you used to love? You may be suffering from clinical depression. The sun can be bright, and the palm trees swaying in the wind as you go about your life in San Diego, but you still feel sad. It can really, really suck—especially when you’re recovering from an eating disorder.
Depression is very typical in people with eating disorders. It is a common co-occurring or co-morbid mental disorder in individuals struggling with anorexia (AN), bulimia (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED). Having depression when you’re living in such a stunning location like San Diego can be especially challenging, as the disparity between what you’re feeling and the “beautiful life” others seem to be living can be hard to bear.