you do gcses back then in three months. and they would bring me my schoolwork on the weekends and i would do it and they would bring it back and i did it that way. and it is without a doubt the thing that saved me and it was my therapist at the time who insisted i do that. the psychiatrist i had at the first hospital i was in insisted we all dropped out of school to focus on our recovery, which was another common theory at the time. and that would have been disastrous for me. by keeping up with my schoolwork, i always had a small eye on the outside world as much as i tried to block it out, so my whole world wasn t anorexia. the other girls i was in hospital with who were about my age or a bit older, who dropped out, it set back their recovery years and in some cases they didn t recover at all. was there a point where you thought, i don t want to still be living like this when i m in my thirties? so it was, i think on my eighth admission and i was in this nhs psychiatric ward
you do gcses back then in three months. and they would bring me my schoolwork on the weekends and i would do it and they would bring it back and i did it that way. and it is without a doubt the thing that saved me and it was my therapist at the time who insisted i do that. the psychiatrist i had at the first hospital i was in insisted we all dropped out of school to focus on our recovery, which was another common theory at the time. and that would have been disastrous for me. by keeping up with my schoolwork, i always had a small eye on the outside world as much as i tried to block it out, so my whole world wasn t anorexia. the other girls i was in hospital with who were about my age or a bit older, who dropped out, it set back their recovery years and in some cases they didn t recover at all. was there a point where you thought, i don t want to still be living like this when i m in my thirties? so it was, i think on my eighth admission and i was in this nhs psychiatric ward and the wo