Mm-hmm.

Even where I lived, there, there wasn't like a specific eating disorder recovery service or psychologist or this type of thing.

I've had to travel quite far to see people who specialized in this area.

So I think my actual information that I was given wasn't the, the full picture.

It was very, um...

Yeah, it, it lacked a lot of depth that recovery actually involves.

There was a-- Certainly, I got a great education around food.

What does full recovery mean to you now? Like how would you describe the difference between symptom management and genuine freedom?

Mm

...

I don't know.

It almost felt like an insect that was having experiments done on it.

That's sort of what I felt like.

It felt like all, like the humanity just kind of got stripped away.

So I was in the medical ward at that hospital for a couple of weeks because I had a lot of heart problems.

Mm.