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welcome back today's topic is something
that I'm sure a lot of us have questions
about and a lot of us worry about and I
do hear from a lot of you that you
wonder if it's too early to seek
treatment or if it's too late to seek
treatment which it's never too late and
it's never too early but that's what
we'll kind of get into today is the
topic of how sick do I really have to be
before I can get
help I know that a lot of us are
concerned about that sometimes we think
oh I'm not going to be skinny enough to
go to treatment they're all going to
judge me I'm going to be the bigger girl
or you know I really don't have a
problem I only do it you know only in
secret sometimes and
it doesn't matter I know that we we
judge ourselves a lot we're our worst
critics right so we think we're not
skinny enough we're not sick enough we
don't have a big enough problem to get
treatment and that kind of to be honest
on the therapist side it kind of is the
reason why we haven't Eden sword in the
first place we never think we're good
enough smart enough anything enough
right we can't be perfect enough things
just aren't ever enough and so we kind
of Trapped ourselves in this you know
this cycle of you know starving
ourselves restricting binging purging
whatever our cycle is exercise to make
up for whatever I mean it's in order to
be enough for anything but I'm here to
tell you that you are enough everything
you're doing what what you're doing in
your life is enough and I mean that as
far as who you are and also in order to
seek treatment now if you think that you
are obsessing over food and you're
watching your calorie intake or you have
to um exercise x amount to make up for
it or if you binge and Purge and then
you you know or if you just binge and
any of those
behaviors you should seek treatment now
that doesn't mean that you have to go
into a hospital or you have to go into
an impatient or anything like that but
at least seek out a therapist someone
like me someone who specializes in
Eating Disorders who you have to talk to
about what's going on because to be
honest the sooner we get help the easier
it is to
deal does that make sense so even if you
think you're not quite sick enough I
promise you it'll be helpful it will
only help you to get a therapist or a
dietician or anybody in your treatment
team to enlist people to help you will
make it so much
easier and the second kind of portion of
this question is like well I'm not
skinny enough for inpatient and I have
to lose more weight before I go in
that's a load of crap I mean I could
kind of try to nicity that up but that's
a load of crap and I know that you know
it is and trust me I know it is I worked
in many treatment centers from being in
a hospital to being an impatient to
being in a PHP or IOP like a you know
you come for the day kind of treatment
center everybody is different
everybody's eating disorder is different
nobody looks the same it doesn't matter
if you're skinny if you're overweight if
you're in the middle it's all the same
and we all struggle to be honest with
the very same issues and it can actually
be really helpful to have all those
different types of people and eating
disorders in group therapy I find those
to be the most therapeutic groups
because everybody has a different View
and you are sick enough for
treatment if you even have that thought
maybe I should I'm pretty sure you've
probably been sick enough for quite a
while now I know that your eating
disorder is yelling and lying and saying
you're not and you have to do this you
should lose x amount of pounds and you
work out this much or you don't um if
you just binge and you don't Purge you
don't deserve to go to treat BL shut up
it's all lies we all deserve help if you
are struggling if you're isolating if
you feel lost and hopeless
helpless get help that's what people
like me are are here for and I know it's
really hard to reach out but just start
looking into it because I tell you what
you don't have to be a certain kind of
sick or a certain kind of eating
disorder to get help all of us deserve
help and deserve support and there's no
problem with reaching out and getting it
okay I know that's kind of a long-winded
answer to that but that's to be honest
the really nitty-gritty truth so I hope
that all of you will reach out for help
there are a ton of different um EA and
disorder treatment centers as well as
therapists that specialize if you're in
the states there's that something fishy.
org I think it is it's a website I've
referred a lot of you to it where they
have list of specialists in your area um
I know it's a little trickier when we
get out of the states CU I'm not as well
versed but I'm getting better at finding
different um facilities and stuff that
are available but reach out for that
support you're getting online you're
watching my videos that's a perfect
start and hop on my website and download
my free workbook there's tabs across the
top you click on the free workbook you
can download it there let's get started
cuz we all deserve to feel better we all
deserve to get help and we're going to
continue to work together towards a
healthy mind and a healthy body