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How Do I Know If I Have An Eating Disorder?

MQ Mental Health

Weight and shape can be a strong focus or distressing obsession for someone with anorexia and tied to their sense of self-worth. Having lived with anorexia for over half my life, I know only too well the struggle and toil it takes, but I also know that full recovery is possible.” A phobia of weight gain may also develop.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I didn't want to attract attention to myself and assumed that a hospital emergency room had bigger problems than a depressed but cooperative patient. I have depression, with anxiety.