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Eating Disorders Community
no insurance, no money....need help now
by anklefrog, Apr 11, 2008 08:38PM
Hello everyone!
This is my first time on this site. I have been bulimic for about 11 years now, and I am 28.
I purge 3-7 times a day. I think I may be bi-polar as well but have not been diagnosed.
I have no health insurance and very little money. I don't know
where to turn for help and was hoping someone could offer a few suggestions. I work
as a bartender/cocktail waitress and my company offers no insurance. I actually applied
online at a health insurance site and was declined today....due to bulimia (not surprisingly).
I am so fed up! I live near Duke and UNC-chapel Hill and they both have programs, but are
SO expensive. I just can't pay for the treatment on top of all of life's other bills. I have searched
the internet for resources and I just want someone to help me!!! I am dying inside and I want to
live. Most of all I want to be happy.
Any suggestions are welcome....THANKS!!!! :)
This is my first time on this site. I have been bulimic for about 11 years now, and I am 28.
I purge 3-7 times a day. I think I may be bi-polar as well but have not been diagnosed.
I have no health insurance and very little money. I don't know
where to turn for help and was hoping someone could offer a few suggestions. I work
as a bartender/cocktail waitress and my company offers no insurance. I actually applied
online at a health insurance site and was declined today....due to bulimia (not surprisingly).
I am so fed up! I live near Duke and UNC-chapel Hill and they both have programs, but are
SO expensive. I just can't pay for the treatment on top of all of life's other bills. I have searched
the internet for resources and I just want someone to help me!!! I am dying inside and I want to
live. Most of all I want to be happy.
Any suggestions are welcome....THANKS!!!! :)
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Let me share you a few thoughts please -
While I lived in Sweden, one of the most expensive "ED healing programs" (let's call it that, I don't know how to translate it) actually kept you there for 2 weeks while counseling and giving you advice on how to cope with life in other ways than transferring everything to the food.
You basically paid your cotton socks off to learn to trust food again. You taught how to eat again, and how to trust yourself to feel when enough was enough.
I haven't looked so much in the "emotional eating forum" here at MedHelp, but I am sure that you can find a whole lot of good advice there too. You can read for free!
It takes a whole lot of courage to one day say that enough is enough with the eating disorders, but you have to find out what exactly you transfer to the food - is it emotions, is it problems, is it frustrations?
For me it is now only anxiety that keeps me to it, but whenever it strikes, I've got to remind myself that I once did learn that food doesn't harm when it is in the right amounts.
It is tough to get out of this circle, but it IS possible.
FORUMS::
Emotional eating: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/145
Mental Health: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/122
Bi-polar: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/160
Depression: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/57
Anxiety: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/71
Florena