Hi everyone, I thought that I would post an update on how things have been since I left outpatient treatment for anorexia. I left outpatient treatment in January 2025. I previously left in October 2022, but returned in Febuary 2023. I developed a severe stomach issue in October 2024. This gave me odemea in my body and moderate swelling as I have chronic kidney disease to due to anorexia complications. I felt it difficult to attend my outpatients appointments where I was used to just being managed at this point.. I found it difficult to attend my appointments in the outpatients with oedema and felt like I was wasting staff’s time if i could not attend due to this and so I asked to be discharged. My care team was very good to me and were very professional and compassionate.My team understood and I was discharged in January 2025. At that point in time I was not in active treatment for recovery and was just managing my eating disorder. I have been in outpatient and inpatient before and have needed to have active treatment to save my life at some points, but it was not like this when I left, I was just being managed for anorexia when I left. If you need to go inpatient I do advice to listen to what your team says and trust them.
I deciuded to leave outpatients and to just walk with my Christian faith and live my life as best that I could working voluntarily and so self projects. I felt that the eating disorders outpatients was may be keeping me back and I prayed about it to. I felt it was difficult for me to see my weight increasing there and peruse more of a recovery holistically, so I felt like this time it was stumbling block to me somehow still attending. Having to go and have my weight checked all the time would have set me back.
I left and started voluntary work and I felt calmer and more at ease, less stressed and since then things have improved for me. This was may be a step that I needed to do. I am better than I have in years with my mindset and am still optimistic that more change can be met. This is a simple story and I just wanted to share it with you.
My journey of change was immense, but I haven’t walked it alone.
Thank you
Rachel Obanubi