In patient treatment eating disorders?

I might need it. Can anyone give me details or share from experiences.
thanks

When you're in inpatient treatment for eating disorders, you usually have to get up early in the morning for vitals (they just check you weight, blood pressure, temp, etc). It varies from place to place, but generally your bathroom will be unlocked from a couple of hours after the last snack/meal until breakfast. That's when you're allowed to use the bathroom unsupervised. During the day you'll most likely have to ask to get your bathroom unlocked and staff will either stand just outside of your door or you might have to count out loud. If you don't finish your meals on time then you'll have to drink Ensure, Boost, some other supplement. During the weekdays you'll have plenty of groups where there'll be a topic and you talk about your issues related to that topic. On weekends you may or may not have groups. This varies greatly from place to place.

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In patient treatment for eating disorders is the best thing you can do for yourself! At first, the initial thought of it is scary, I know, but believe me it is totally worth it. Not only does it really help you through recovering from your eating disorder, but you feel like a different person after treatment, and it's an amazing feeling. You feel health, energized, happy, your not concerned with food and your weight all the time. It is the best thing that I ever have done for myself, and I highly recommend it to anyone that is considering it.

If you want suggestions for a good treatment center, I strongly recommend Recovery Connection: http://www.eatingdisorder.com/eating-dis... This treatment center was amazing, the staff was great, very helpful, and it changed my life.

Hope this is helpful, good luck.

i was hospitalized for my eating disorder which may be slightly different than being sent to inpatient treatment. in the hospital, for the first three days i had limited privileges (no tv, no computer, limited phone time, bedrest, limited time in the bathroom, limited family visiting time, only allowed to wear a hospital gown) and i was forced to drink 8 Ensure shakes per day to replace food (it's to avoid refeeding syndrome). in the mornings, i was woken up early to get vitals (weight, blood pressure, pulse, blood sample)
after the first few days, things got better. i was allowed to watch tv, go on the computer, talk on the phone, walk around on the ward (no exercising though), have family visit, and wear real clothes again. i also got a meal plan which was 3500 calories per day to start, but then was upped to 4000. i had breakfast right after vitals, and then was allowed to go back to my room. between breakfast and lunch, i had group therapy sessions or talks with the doctors and nutritionists. there were also two snacks, one after lunch and the other after dinner. all meals and snacks were supervised by a nurse or doctor, and there were a bunch of rules surrounding eating, and i wasn't allowed to know the calorie content of the foods, just like i wasn't allowed to know my weight. eventually, the doctors did tell me how many calories i was taking in per day, and my weight, but that was toward the end of my stay. i stayed for three weeks and was released into outpatient care.
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