
Aubrey's Eating Disorder Recovery
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I am a 20 year old girl named Aubrey Greene and I have had an eating disorder (anorexia purging subtype) since I was nine years old.
I have been undergoing treatment for the past five years, but unfortunately I recently ran into a roadblock when my insurance company claimed an exclusion against eating disorders on my health benefit that is preventing me from being able to receive residential treatment. For the past several months, I have been struggling with a relapse serious enough to land me in the hospital for long stretches multiple times with a heart complication known as a prolonged QTC (a result of malnutrition and subsequent electrolye imbalance). My doctors and treatment team say that I need residential treatment, and I think they are right. I need the highest level of help I can get right now, and unfortunately with this insurance denial, I cannot receive that help.
Living with an eating disorder is a moment-by-moment challenge. My eating disorder pervades every aspect of my life. I struggle with recovery because although living with an eating disorder is miserable, recovery is equally as painful and challenging. When I am starving, I feel happiest. I recognize that this is unhealthy and abnormal, but the feelings are too powerful for me to stop on my own. I often feel like I would rather live a short, "happy" life starving than live a long and relatively unhappy life. I know this is not normal, but I can't control this.
My eating disorder has cost me a lot during the course of my life. I've had to leave college numerous times, I've spent a lot of time in treatment and hospitalizations, and so much of my time and energy is spent grappling with the daily struggles of eating, exercising, and purging.
I have done all possible levels of care except for residential. I have tried day hospitalization, intensive outpatient, adolescent-specialized Maudsley treatment, and more...but now I need an even higher level of care. I have never gotten residential treatment and I am hoping that it may be the keystone I have been waiting for that may transform my recovery. Residential treatment offers 24/7 care, which at my critical state, I am deeply in need of.
Since the treatment that I need is so costly without the help of insurance, my family simply cannot afford for me to go unless kind benefactors offer us some assistance. Thank you so much for reading and for your support. It means the world to me!
I have been undergoing treatment for the past five years, but unfortunately I recently ran into a roadblock when my insurance company claimed an exclusion against eating disorders on my health benefit that is preventing me from being able to receive residential treatment. For the past several months, I have been struggling with a relapse serious enough to land me in the hospital for long stretches multiple times with a heart complication known as a prolonged QTC (a result of malnutrition and subsequent electrolye imbalance). My doctors and treatment team say that I need residential treatment, and I think they are right. I need the highest level of help I can get right now, and unfortunately with this insurance denial, I cannot receive that help.
Living with an eating disorder is a moment-by-moment challenge. My eating disorder pervades every aspect of my life. I struggle with recovery because although living with an eating disorder is miserable, recovery is equally as painful and challenging. When I am starving, I feel happiest. I recognize that this is unhealthy and abnormal, but the feelings are too powerful for me to stop on my own. I often feel like I would rather live a short, "happy" life starving than live a long and relatively unhappy life. I know this is not normal, but I can't control this.
My eating disorder has cost me a lot during the course of my life. I've had to leave college numerous times, I've spent a lot of time in treatment and hospitalizations, and so much of my time and energy is spent grappling with the daily struggles of eating, exercising, and purging.
I have done all possible levels of care except for residential. I have tried day hospitalization, intensive outpatient, adolescent-specialized Maudsley treatment, and more...but now I need an even higher level of care. I have never gotten residential treatment and I am hoping that it may be the keystone I have been waiting for that may transform my recovery. Residential treatment offers 24/7 care, which at my critical state, I am deeply in need of.
Since the treatment that I need is so costly without the help of insurance, my family simply cannot afford for me to go unless kind benefactors offer us some assistance. Thank you so much for reading and for your support. It means the world to me!
Organizer
Aubrey Lynn Greene
Organizer
Avon, OH