BITE BY BITE | Honest Conversations About Eating Disorder Recovery2 Jul

RCS 7: eating disorders do not have a look and neither does recovery with Eric Pothen

Welcome back to the Recovery Companion Series. 🎉

In this episode, Kait and Eric tackle one of the most frustrating and damaging misconceptions in eating disorder treatment → the idea that weight restoration equals recovery.

Kait shares the moment she was discharged from partial hospitalization in 2016 because insurance stopped paying, and what the years that followed actually looked like. Together they unpack why basing discharge and treatment access on weight alone leaves so many people without the support they actually need and why that gap is a system failure, not a personal one.

They also challenge the language around recovery, what it actually means to be recovered versus recovering, and why you can struggle with any eating disorder at any size. This is the conversation the treatment world needs to have.

Episode takeaways:

Weight restoration is the tip of the iceberg, not the finish line
Only around 6% of people with eating disorders are considered underweight
You can struggle with any eating disorder at any size
Being discharged from treatment is not the same as being recovered
Discharge criteria based on weight alone is a system failure
Recovery is a lifestyle not a destination with a finish line
An eating disorder thought in recovery does not have to become a behavior
Language around recovery matters, recovered and in recovery are not the same thing

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