I was in this place for 6 hrs a day, 3 days a week, for 4 months for "partial hospitalization" for anorexia from july-october 05. Now my therapist wants me back in the program... I don't know what just came over me (stupidity), but I just pretty much signed myself in. Starting monday.

Major freakage-outage. The main doctor there HATES me because I was on a gluten-free diet for the majority of the time there (we eat dinner together), but not a vegetarian. They support vegetarian, but NOT vegan diets. :wall: ... errrrrgggggggghhhhhh

There are usually a few vegetarians in program (10-15 people at a time, usually)... Their dinners, as I recall, were almost always chick'n patties or nuggets and the same veggies/rice/potatoes/bread/pasta whatever as everyone else. That is, unless we had lasanga or something, and in that case, everyone ate the same thing. (Quiche....AHHH... Chicken menstrual flow baked over a crust of lard and ahhhhhhh)

I can't ask for vegan food, though. The aformentioned doctor shops for all the meals himself. I just couldn't.

Thank God that they stopped forcing the 3 yogurts (24 oz) if you don't finish your meal. Lol.

Really, I'm not too worried about the food, I guess. I HATE getting weighed every day (at 3 pm!!! how very effective...not). Everything else is okay. I like the people there, although they will all be making fun of me and my various restrictive diets (i'm off gluten free now, apparently, now a mostly-vegan lol).

Wish me luck, you guysssss...

tomato...just work on getting better right now. :yes:

How do you parents feel about all of this?

tomato...just work on getting better right now. :yes:

:yes:

i agree with the above. don't worry about what you shouldn't be eating/don't want to eat, worry about becoming well.

thanks guys...

i'm not even sure if i'm going back anymore. we're going to "wait a week" to make a final desicion because my mom "doesn't want to jump into anything too extreme right this second."

... Ha. Never mind.

Good luck, I remember when I went into the hospital for depression they asked me if I was on any special diet (at the time I wasn't a vegetarian) but there was this ONE girl who was a vegan and they always messed up her meal and gave her cheese or something :( it looked pretty annoying. Get better first though, then worry about everyone/animals.

Well, if you do end up going, focus on getting better(like the others said). At least they have vegetarian foods! Good luck! :)