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    Hello ClassicAim! Another reformed ED-er here First off, many congrats on deciding to try to beat it. You can, you know!! As for hair, what is said above is all very true. Unhealthy eating = less awesome hair. In my case (I never was very malnourished for a longer period, but more doing tricks with eating, so to speak) my hair wasn't what suffered most, but my overal health became really poor. I found it very confronting during recovery just how much my body had suffered and how much it was protesting against building up muscle and stamina again. That was really important for me at the time (becuse I loved my sports! Not because of ED related things) and it was a huge incentive for me to keep on eating normally and, in my case, unhealthy again! (....as I wasn't allowed to eat unhealthy things. Which is a very unhealthy thing in itself!)

    So, I found that for me, too, focussing on letting my body flourish instead of tearing it down helped me getting my head straighter and helped me heal. I hope your hair cn do that for you too, without it becoming a redirected obsession.

    Okay, that might have been slightly off topic, but I wanted to chime in, and I'm sending a ton of happy mental brainwaiviesenergy to you, and good luck with it all!

    Edit: Oh and the hair DID become much nicer after all, too, it never did shed so muc but the healthier hair was so much stronger and less fruzzly, so! Compeletely forgot to add that hairy detail, on a hair board no less :0
    Last edited by Majorane; September 8th, 2014 at 06:42 AM.

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    Majorane - Thank you so much for the happy mental brain waves . Your post gives me lots of hope by focusing on developing something else in my body will help me as it helped you. Again, Thank you so much for your post . Sometime's its lovely to know others have been where I am too and beat it x

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    Quote Originally Posted by Knifegill View Post
    A redirected food obsession is an untreated food obsession. A vegan who will drive 30 miles to buy cruelty-free shoelaces will become a Paleo'er who will spend weekends barefoot hunting squirrels in the park. Once you get locked into a serious food obsession, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. It's not what's on the plate, it's what's in the mind. Genuine one-on-one or group treatment with good thought journaling and similar interventions etc., tend to have the best outcomes.
    Knifegill, I'm quoting this because I'm really impressed with a)the point you made and b) redirecting advice that, while given with good intentions, could be triggering. It's very true that it's easy to channel your eating disorder in another direction and claim "recovery".

    ClassicAim, I struggled with anorexia and exercise purging for years. I'm sorry that you're struggling, and I wish you good luck with your recovery! It's not always the easiest thing, but it's so much more worth it. For what it's worth, my hair did continue to grow at its normal rate while I was actively using ED'ed symptoms, but it was also falling out all over the place and got very thin compared to how it used to be. I'm still trying to thicken up my hemline >_>

    If you ever need support, distraction, whatever please feel free to PM me!

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    Hey ClassicAim. I am also a recovering borderline anorexic. My hair health wasn't too bad, although it never grew long and my nape always thinned out or broke off first. All the best with your recovery, I'm rooting for you. Oh yeah, feel free to PM me when you want to vent or something
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    YvetteVarie - I also have a slight problem with my nape and general perimeter of my hair being a bit thinner than the rest. Thank you so much for commenting, I think one of the scary things about this is for a long time I was so private about it and it made me feel even more alone and everything seemed so much more scary. Thank you and everyone so much for helping me to see I'm not the only one in this. Good luck in your recovery too and thanks for offering to let me PM you . Means a lot to me x

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    ghost - Thanks for your comment. I'm sorry to hear you also struggled but I am glad overcame it . This give me hope. I have a very strong feeling its going to take me a really long time to thicken up my hemline as I recover and my hair grows. But as you said, this will all hopefully be worth it Thank you for the offer to PM xx

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    Former anorexic here. My hair has been through a lot but it never looked as miserable as when I didn't eat properly. It was falling out in balls and was extremely dry regardless of the masks I used regularly. The condition of my hair was my strongest motivation to get better too. It got much stronger and shinier after I started eating properly. Of course, it takes a while but the effect will be visible if you keep nourishing your body. Whether you'll be able to reach classic length or not depends on your genes but even if you don't, you'll still have beautiful hair. Good luck!

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    Okay, you might not like my response. I had bulimia for two years. It completely destroyed my hair, which was waist length at the time. I have been recovered since August 2012. My hair is still a complete disaster. It's now shoulder length (with no major cuts, it fell out/stopped growing) and just awful. It's brittle and dull, it's the kind of hair where you can pull a piece away from your head and it kind of stays there. I have to add that it is bleached, but nothing extreme (no bleach on top of bleach). I had beautiful hair before the ED while bleaching it. I have good nutrition now, so I don't know what else to do. If I wasn't getting married in 7 months I would seriously consider shaving my head.

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    Hello and welcome!
    I personally never suffered from EDs, but my mother did suffer from anorexia for many years and her hair was quite destroyed from that.
    I don't want to discourage you, but hair, nails and skin are good mirrors of your general health.
    If your body doesn't get the nutrients it needs, it starts to "save" the energies, cutting the resources to the parts that aren't essential to the survival and, at last, it starts to digest itself, taking the nutrients from your muscles and bones.
    A good alimentation makes hair, as the whole body, healthier and stronger, and makes it grow faster.
    I hope this, with many other reasons I'm sure you already know, will help you to fight this disorder. It can be beaten and you can fully recover.
    This community is very supportive and you'll find a lot of encouragement here.
    I wish you the best for your goal of reaching calssic.

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    harridan - That is very encouraging . I'll be very happy with waist length hair, classic is my ultimate goal but I'll be fine with it if i don't quite get there .

    sunnylove - Thank you for your honesty, it means a lot to me. Your hair will probably will recover, your in the right place to get advice and be able to recover it. I've only been here for a little bit and my hair habits have improved. I'd recommend coconut oil if you haven't already tried it and gentle shampoos without sulfate . Congrats on your engagement and oncoming wedding !

    Federica - Thank you for welcoming me and wishing me luck in recovery. I'm sorry to hear about your mother x. Thank you for reminding me of the other things my disorder affects, This is going to keep me in the mindset that the recovery of my hair is inexplicably linked to committing to recovery from my eating disorders for the long haul.

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