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Want to add my 2 cents about the whole inpatient discussion that started in the A & E Intervention thread, but getting a bit off topic so I thought I'd start my own... I went in 3 times for inpatient and all times I did lose weight. That's not the case for everyone that goes in obviously. In my experience, the pressure and "hidden" competition that occurs natually when you get a room full of anorexics together got to me. Who can slip through without getting caught, etc... Not a good thing, and again not everyone experiences that. For me, one on one therapy only helped me because everything about the hospital was a trigger for me, including my own roommate. anyone have the same experience?
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I went for in treatment but I was wholly unprepared. I was only there fo a week before discharged myself. t was so strict I couldn't handle it. I sabotaged myself that whole week by over-exercising and not completing meals. It's hard because I want to b healthy but the change is so hard. Anyways I know what you mean seeing such tiny people is a trigger because it just reminds you of why you are there in the first place.
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I was inpatient for 4 weeks.It was very strict and there was no way to hide food or overexersize. Plus I was really determined to get healthy. But I did get triggered towards the end big time when I had gained a bunch of weight and saw the new patients come in who were extremely thin. I felt fat and it was really time for me to go.
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I was in residential for two months after being hospitalised for three weeks. The environment was extremely lax- staff didn't pay attention and played card games on their computers. I exercised in my huge walk-in closet and when I got walk passes I would take them after meals to purge in the porta-potty at the construction site next door (yeah, shameful, I know). I gained about ten pounds, but within two months, I had relapsed severely. I have now dropped to an all-time low, and I am frightened out of my wits to go back to such a harmful environment. Staff members said horrible things, and therapists were never there enough. The doctor didn't come until four days after I had transferred to Oceanaire (residential) from the hospital, and I had gone through SEVERE withdrawal because I had been on nine different drugs.

Like Karrin, I left when I saw new younger patients come in who were severely underweight, and here I was 2 months in, and back to a slim but healthy weight. I ended up leaving AMA after they tried to yank my discharge date away from me. I was tired of being jerked around, and I just wasn't ready to recover.
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I think too that with all treatment centers you will find people there that are not really ready to give their ED up. For those in treament that are trying to, it makes it more difficult to stay on track when you see other girls/guys that are not following the rules. I agree that when you begin to gain the weight, you're forced to see the new comers or thin girls and makes you second guess your decision to get healthy. It's hard enough to recover on your own without having to see others struggling.
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