Surviving Anorexia | Hollyoaks IRL 

Glad this is being spoken about, I was ill with severe anorexia for 35 years, I ended up admitted to our local hospice in 2010 on end of life care, glad to say I pulled it around and I went into a private eating disorders clinic , I was there for a year, and that year was the start of me living, instead of barely existing , when I was first Ill, there was so little known about eating disorders and I was very admitted at 16 to a general psychiatric unit, they had no idea how to treat anorexia and I was given insulin therapy , nothing was done to address my fears and why I feared weight gain, when I got out of hospital , I packed my bags and moved miles away, and I kept as far away from doctors as I could, this fear of treatment due to past experiences , is what prevented me from getting help again, until I became so unwell I collapsed, I was so lucky I survived and was able to enter treatment as it is now, eating disorders are better understood now and the help is there, so please go and get help as soon as possible , I now try and help other sufferers, it is never too late to get help, but the sooner you get help the better , I am now fully recovered and so wish I had got help sooner 🌸❤️🌺🌺🌸

When he mentioned his heart rate was low at night that hit close home to me cause had three weeks ago a replase again and felt my heart dropped now waking me up each night like I feel faint....😑

You are a very brave young man 👨, wishing you all the best recovery. My heart feels for you.

Needed to see this. Convinced myself that because I'm fat, I'm over my bulimia, but this highlighted that I'm not. Going to see my gp tomorrow.

Thank you so very much for this, we do not hear from enough boys and men when it comes to eating disorders, thank you for your bravery!

Been struggling for years with forgiving my male cousin who went through the same as Ben. My misgiving is that he physically attacked and verbally abused my mother & grandmother during the time he was ill, and also the way he behaved and appeared in the depths of the illness left me and my family traumatised for many years (longer than he was sick). At one point, he was close to death. Yet today, a decade later, he's totally well, but pretends it never happened and makes light of anything related to ED. I do understand him wanting to leave the past in the past, but it's made it hard for everyone around him to process and grieve. He doesn't seem to care about reconciling or making peace, though all my family ever did was care for him (literally and metaphorically), more than his parents bothered to do. Dgmw, I don't want to make his suffering all about me or my mother, but sometimes I feel like the decent person I knew before he got ill died, and the recovered version of him is a stranger, now. If he'd just come to me today and talk it over, explain, cry it out, apologise to my Mom, then I think we could easily come to a place of reconciliation and I could move on, the way he has. I loved him once, and still miss him now. It feels like he's holding me emotionally hostage.

I had a similar experience as Ben. Put into an inpatient in unit at 15-16 for 4 months (had to go do my GCSEs whilst still being a inpatient) and I’m really grateful he’s talking about it. It’s a terrifying experience. I was on watch instantly and it’s humiliating. It also doesn’t go away just be putting weight on. My sickness started in 2004 and there was no mental health conversation at the time, I really hope that the change and more awareness saves people lives as once it’s started, it’s hard to undo the damage it has caused

The actor who plays cleo is a fantastic actor she nailed the bulimia storyline

Thank you for this.

Very powerful brother!. I was in Episode 1, thanks for sharing your story brother! :D

Its very hard for me in a day i can lose a kilo , in a day i can gain but I'm never stable

Thank you so much for this little series, I've really looked forward to it each Wednesday. Great work everyone involved!

I've followed Ben on insta for a while and he is honestly the most uplifting and inspirational person, a role model to me recovering from an eating disorder myself. And Nadine is just incredible❤

These videos are really good

Thank u so much Very inspirational 👏🙌👍😊🙂☺️❤️

Another hollyoaks Show saves a life! 💕

Love the way Hollyoaks is showing us real life problem

I know the feeling of the control being taken away from me still in care. It’s absolutely horrific but touch 🪵 never self harmed nor do I wish to, It felt like it’s never ending. Sorry for sharing this 😔

People think men don’t suffer with these conditions but we do good on him for being so outspoken brave lad

i had eating disorders survived 2x i was told i was near to death by doctors i was lack of all good stuff you need bascily to survive . i wasnt allowed to eat although i wanted to i just cant in case i get punished for eating etc . now i living healthy attending gym and doing things women should do for 14 yrs i went through hell point where i wanted to end this im surviour now some parts vid reminded me how i lived and survived

I love that Hollyoaks are doing these real life videos now 😊

Ty

amazing

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Not really relevant, but I absolutely love this guy's accent!

Fab story. However - maybe don’t say he looks ‘healthy’ as someone with same issues - this comment hits hard. But yea positive story

Ive syrvived arfid at 10

way is add in path

I also have anorexic friends

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mashallah

Apparently CAMHS is shit. All they do is tell you to have a bath 😂

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It's childish to think only girls get anorexia. Anyone can get it x

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Narcissism manifests itself in multifarious ways.....

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... Via all gender's, you mean it can effect Males as well as Females 🤷🙃🤦