Self Esteem Pie Charts

 

 This represents how my self esteem is divided up right now. That is 2/3 appearance based judgements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is where I would love to be in 6 months time. I want more things to matter in life. I want to judge how I feel about myself more on who I am as a person, what I enjoy and what affect I have on the world around me, not solely on face value. I don’t judge other people by their appearances so I shouldn’t judge myself by mine. On this appearance in general still features as weight will always matter to me but I want to take more care of my skin and make up and clothes and let them define me more than the body that resides beneath.

Physical and Psychological Complications Checklist

Physical complications:

• changes to my hair, skin and nails
  

• fatigue, lethargy
  
• headaches
  
• electrolyte imbalance
  
• parasthesias (tingling/numbness feelings)
  
• heart irregularities
  
• delayed stomach emptying
  
• bloating, gas and stomach pain
  
• reflux
  
• dehydration
  
• muscle cramps

Psychological complications:

• depression
• social anxiety
• worrying
• obsessive compulsive symptoms
• mood swings
• difficulties with judgment and decision making
• social isolation
• decreased self-esteem
• self-harm behaviours

Who am I?

Ab intra vi et animo

From within with heart and soul

I am Emma, I have had anorexia since I was 13 years old and now at nearly 18 I am finally fighting for recovery for real.

As well as intensive outpatient therapy I am working my way through a challenging recovery work book and my aim of blog is to post my answers to the book so I can keep a record of how I feel and who I am, so when I am futher along in my recovery I can look back as see how far I have come. This blog is about recovery, it isn’t going to be a straight line or easy but hopefully it will end in recovery!