Bearing in mind that I still class myself as anorexic - no, I'm not over it. I am working through my issues and it is less of a problem than it was, but I do have to be careful, especially as a teacher who has to tell girls anorexia and its effects are bad and I'm sat there wishing I could be as thin as the pictures I'm saying are wrong. As Indadhanu said, it's like being an alcoholic. Some people recover and can enjoy alcohol in moderation again. Others have to avoid alcohol and the surrounds whenever possible. Generally speaking, it's those who can challenge and change the underlying psychology that make the better recoveries.
However, my anorexia is linked to other abuse, so as I'm working through that I'm also coming out of the anorexic thought patterns. I don't know when I'll be able to stop thinking of myself as anorexic: usually when I've tried before I've gone straight back to it, so keeping in mind I have a problem seems to keep me out of trouble.
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