--- title: Help Yourself description: Support your recovery canonical_url: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-11 language: en-GB date: 2016-07-28T05:04:46Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-11. markdown-tokens: 1149 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/page-11. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![doorknob 948568 340](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/doorknob-948568__340.jpg)Doors can open for you if you knock or simply turn the handle. Here you can find articles that may answer your questions and support you in your personal recovery work. You'll also find a series of inspirations and affirmation that may help you stay on your healing path. Please remember, helping yourself does not mean going it alone. Helping yourself means discovering what what you can do to support your own recovery. That includes how to recognize opportunity and reach out for what supports your health and personal development. When you help yourself you are looking to people as well as books, websites and classes, who are in a position to offer you genuine recovery help on your journey to healing. Open new doors to find your recovery path. Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) Guided imagery and other methods that reach under the conscious thinking mind can be useful in your eating disorder recovery. People with eating disorders often have secrets from themselves. These are secrets about which they have little or no awareness. Guilt, shame and severe self-criticism accompany most eating disorders. People believe they are doing something weak and wrong by abusing themselves with too much or not enough food, or by taking laxatives or vomiting, or by compulsively exercising to work off calories. They can be merciless in their self-punishing thoughts. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/guided-imagery-and-eating-disorder-treatment) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) At some point in your recovery work you struggle to truly stop bingeing and are on the edge of success. But you are tempted. No. It's much more than that, and you know it. You feel [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/what-do-i-do-instead-of-going-on-a-binge) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) ![dialing_phone](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/dialing_phone.jpg)If you've been a compulsive overeater most of your life you know your health gets increasingly worse and you battle with depression. Diets and drugs such as Prozac, may give you temporary hope or relief but nothing deeply changes your inner pain or eliminates your compulsive overeating. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/compulsive-overeater-on-the-verge-of-getting-help) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) Sex and Doughnuts **Dangerous Sexual Encounters as Part of Bulimic Episode - continued from previous post** **Day 7 continued p.m.** You are out the door. With firm, fast steps you head for your car. blood surging through your veins, heart pounding, stomach vibrating, electrical energy pouring out of your cells, you can almost hear your body humming. You get in the car, turn the ignition and love the engine roar. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/triggers-what-do-they-tell-us-part-ii) Details Category: [Help Yourself](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/eating-disorder-help/help-yourself/) **The Paradox in Binge as Rescue:** You know what you want. You want to be solid and alive. You want to be capable of being seen and heard without going into anxiety. You want to be real and have a real life. However, experiencing an emotional crisis drives you to save yourself from intense and immediate pain. You plunge into your eating disorder repertoire. **Eating Disorder Rescues:** The eating disorder rescue looks like this: You crawl under the covers, trembling on the inside and afraid to come out. Or you sink into the television, binge and do not answer the phone. Or you binge in restaurants wearing what feels like your invisibility cloak or phony persona. Or you binge in your car, alone and unseen. [ Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/help-yourself/response-to-crisis-part-v-of-vi)