Patients Speak

Although F.E.A.S.T. is an organization focused on parents and caregivers, our reason for being here is love and support for our loved ones with eating disorders. This page is our celebration of our children, recovered and recovering. Here we listen to the voices of the ones who bring us here.

Letters

NEW: Who am I - a recovery essay (September 2011)
"Perfection and Control" (August 2011)
Dear Kate from Anna, a letter from a former patient to a new patient (May, 2011)
Real Monsters - a poem by Emily Clancy in honor of NEDAW (February, 2011)
"I have many things to start living for" (February 2011)
"I'm sick but I can get better" (February 2011)
"J" to the Around the Dinner Table Online Forum: "Keep Doing What You're Doing"(updated January 2011, from Dec. 2009)
"I feel like I'm becoming the person I really am" (December 2010)
"It's normal for me to be doubting this...so I'm saying yes" (April 2010)
"Ten Things I want Parents to Know" & "Ten Things I want Sufferers to Know" by Carrie Arnold (March 2010)
"Letter from Borrower" (December 2009)
"Letter from David" from 2009 NEDA conference (September 2009)
"Reassurance" (September 2009)
"From the Inside: A letter from a patient with autism and anorexia" (July 2009)
"It was almost a year before I let her touch me or hug me." (May 2009)
"At BMI 24, I lose my periods, and at BMI 23, I was severely ill. (May 2009)
"I am grateful for 32" (October 2008)
"As my strength returned, I created Happy Day Cards (July 2008)
"For the first time, i can say honestly that i am in recovery" (June 2008)
"For the first time in my 20 year treatment history, a treatment provider is absolutely insisting that I eat full nutrition every day" (June 2008)
"There really was not much information available at all in the early 1980's" (2008)
A long-term patient tells how research on organic differences and biological predisposition makes her feel(2008)
I am way too cool a chick to let something as vile as an eating disorder to nip me in the butt (December 2007)

Are you a former patient with a message for parents? Please email us at: info@FEAST-ED.org

Our Stories and Letters

Audio Interviews

"As much as I was told to look at what my parents had done, ultimately I blamed myself"

A patient in her mid-20's describes years of treatment and the use of the Family-Based Maudsley approach.
DC area, US. (2008)

"It was about love"

A patient in her early 20s describes family relationships, the Family-Based Maudsley approach, and what it feels like to be recovered.
Utah, US. (2008)

"I was so surprised to learn that I had anorexia... It scared me."

An 18-year old on her way to college describes her recovery.
Oregon, US. (2008)

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