My parents (with the help of my doctor) decided that I'm going to start an in-patient therapy program next Monday. I have the diagnosis meeting(?) tomorrow morning. I thought in an in-patient program, all of the patients sleep at the hospital and are there 24/7 every day until they get better, but mine isn't as much. I think it's three days a week from 8am-4:30pm and two days from 11am-7pm. I am excited to maybe finally get a little better, but I'm not upset that I'll be missing a whole bunch of stuff to do so. I'm not someone with an eating disorder that just sits around home every day and does nothing. I have two jobs (three during the school year), go to a top liberal arts college, play a varsity sport, have an internship in NYC in the fall two days a week and am going to be a teacher's assistant in the fall!
As of now, I'm going to be in the program for 3 weeks so I'll just miss pre-season of my sport. But, my dad said that if I don't make any progress, they'll keep me in a 4th week and maybe never take me out if I make absolutly NO progress and don't try. That is NOT going to happen. There's no way I'm going to be missing my internship or being a teacher's assistant. The plan is for me to go to the program now for a few weeks, go back to school and continue my weekly therapy/nutritionist appointments and then go back into a program while I'm home for winter break in between semesters. I just feel like there's never going to be a good time to do this because I'm always going to have something going on.
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