How Are We All?
Since stepping back from being ‘the primary carer’, I have felt as if I can breather a little. Or BREATHE as the fabulous Charlotte Bevan would have said (thanks to […]
Since stepping back from being ‘the primary carer’, I have felt as if I can breather a little. Or BREATHE as the fabulous Charlotte Bevan would have said (thanks to […]
After the disastrous meeting yesterday, I am asked to attend another meeting today. Reluctant as I am, L asks me to come and so I agree. I meet with her […]
Today is the meeting at the unit, at which L is to decide whether to stay in the unit or go home. I ask her over the weekend if she […]
Today, we meet at the unit to discuss L’s progress. Or lack of progress. I am told they believe she is ambivalent about being there and that I am ambivalent […]
I don’t believe that eating disorders are caused by society. But I do think they are triggered. In the same way you don’t send an asthmatic to an angora rabbit […]
Two weeks into inpatient treatment and things are not going well. L frequently does not complete meals and her weight starts to drop. She is passive and quiet and often […]
There will now be a short intermission from sadness I’m not managing my medication that well. So, having thought that I’d taken it yesterday, I hadn’t. Which meant, as usual, […]
This afternoon, K and I went to CAMHS. The ‘other’ CAMHS. K was transferred to another team with the aim of making space for her without L’s issues dominating. We […]
Today is a week since L returned to inpatient treatment. We see her everyday and I talk to her in the phone. The unit is a small facility, twenty minutes […]
It has been four days since L was admitted. There are equal measures of sadness and relief. I miss her, but if don’t miss Ed. Unfortunately he was admitted alongside […]