While I do have several new posts on the way, I want to highlight a couple of older Grey Thinking posts (some are several years old!  I bet you were not reading GT two years ago) that talk specifically about treatment, your attitude toward treatment, recovery expectations, etc.  While there are a couple of people that I have in mind when it comes to the subject of these posts, I think that everyone can use the refresher.
You as your own case manager
Originally Posted: 01/01/2009
I wish that all these …

‘But I ask myself if an eating disorder unit is the best place for an impressionable young girl to be,’ says Deanne Jade. ‘As any inpatient will tell you, a specialist unit is the best place to learn how to be really, really good at anorexia.’ They also breed their own subculture.
– Still at war with our bodies

Oh, what a statement! This article is a couple of years old, but I still think it’s bold to suggest that the “highest level of care” for eating disorders actually makes …

This is what kills me about mental health research (especially with eating disorders). I ready a study today about the “Effectiveness of day hospital treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.” 83 eating-disordered patients were assessed before and after (a year after) a day hospitalization program. The study boasts “significant improvement on all outcome variables (frequency of binge eating/vomiting/laxative abuse, BMI and core EDI-subscales ‘drive for thinness’ / ‘bulimia’ / ‘body dissatisfaction’), with large effect sizes and improvements that continued even upon long-term follow-up. In conclusion:
The …