I decided to join this forum because I want to start losing weight healthily.
I've never stopped losing weight, mind you. Abusing laxatives and a 300 calorie diet for months, been losing weight for 4 years total.
I've been diagnosed with severe depression and schizophrenia and I'm 19 years old. No medications have worked yet, but I talked with my therapist last wednesday and she said that starving my body is going to damage my brain more. She even said that it might be why pills aren't helping me yet.
I ordered an excercise bike for myself last night (good deal!), and I'm going to try excercise and eating more than 300 calories and take multivitamins and get the nutrients I need to help myself.
I'd love to be able to get well enough to learn how to drive and get a job and an apartment to myself, but it isn't currently possible. Maybe my journey here might be able to make me well!