Robin suffers from an eating disorder and anorexia: “You will isolate yourself a lot.”

Robin says she is often disappointed by people’s biases. Additionally, it is “impossible” to explain an eating disorder to people who have no experience with it. “They can’t imagine it. It makes you feel very strange and often isolates you. The nice thing about Leontienhuis is that you can find appreciation there. The people who work there – they are all experienced experts – help you understand yourself more. They know how it works. It is nice to meet people who have come a long way in their recovery.

Leontenhuis

Hotel Leontienhuis, in Zevenhuizen, South Holland, was opened in 2015 by Queen Máxima. What started as a reception center is now an official “recovery center.” “But the basis is the same,” he says Heart of Holland-Journalist Brett Lapp. I created the podcast series Eat struggle, where she spent several days in Leontienhuis. “People are helped in an accessible way. They eat together and can be creative, for example.

Lapp says she was actually five years ago at the reception center preparing a report. “Then I spoke with Marieke. ‘If the Leontenhuis family hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t have been there either,’ she said. ‘I found it strange to realize how much of an impact such a place could have on the lives of so many people with eating disorders.’ It allowed for more than just a two-minute report on our broadcast that’s why he’s been there since last Friday Eat strugglea three-part podcast series.

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Eat struggle

For four days, Lap was “one.” A fly on the wall“In Leontienhuis. “He was really nice Eye opened for me. Everything is very homely. People get a lot of attention, and we really look at what they need. Many eating disorder practitioners work in a very fixed pattern, but this may work much better. And also because there are all the experienced experts working there. I hope I can get people thinking: Is what we are doing now the right way to treat an eating disorder?

“Sometimes I found it difficult, too,” the reporter admits. “For example, when a girl went into complete shock while eating dinner. She started shaking so badly she wouldn’t respond anymore. I was shocked by that, but for the supervisor that day — Allard — it was all in one day’s work. The podcast also says: Eating a sandwich Cheese can feel like you’re walking into a burning house if you have an eating disorder and I now fully realize that when I eat a cheese sandwich.

social problem

For the past year and a half, Robin has been living in a place where she also eats together: assisted living, especially for people with eating disorders. She doesn’t dare hope for a 100% recovery; She can’t imagine not having thoughts of an eating disorder anymore. At the same time, her condition is better than it was four years ago, when she started treatment. “Then I really had an eating disorder. Now I try to see it as a separate part of me. I’ve also given it a name so I can free myself from it.”

“I hope I can at least get to ‘learning to live with it,’ which is the point where it no longer completely takes over my life,” Robin adds. “I’m having a hard time knowing who I am without an eating disorder. But as deep as I was three years ago, that’s not life. So I’m basically holding on to what I no longer want. I still have to figure out what I do want.”

BritLab calls the large number of eating disorders a “major social problem.” “The waiting lists are terrible, of course, and I think the problem is growing because of social media. There really needs more help. I have seen terrible cases in Leontenhuis. Like Helga, a 55-year-old woman who has struggled with an eating disorder for 25 years. As far as I am concerned, it would be good if there was such a center in every district.

Eat struggle It is a podcast series by Heart of Holland. He listens The first episode is below.

Do you have eating problems and want to talk about them? MIND Korrelation offers individual counseling and psychological assistance to anyone who requests it. This can be done anonymously, either over the phone (0900-1450) like Online and via WhatsApp. The JIJ Foundation, which specializes in eating disorder issues, also regularly has tTelephone consultation and chat hours.

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