Four years ago, Ben stopped playing Xbox Live with his friends. He used to do it all the time, but over that summer of 2009 as the eating disorder began to take over his life, he just stopped. Instead, he played on the Xbox in solitude. Today, however, he's hooked up to Xbox Live again, laughing and yelling with glee as he "fights" a couple of friends on some game or other.
And these are new friends, not the old friends who virtually deserted Ben. These are friends he's met down at Games Workshop.
It's yet another development in Ben's Life Without ED, as the eating disorder fades even more into the distance.
Then tomorrow he and I leave for Cornwall, for the sea-view holiday he won in a competition.
Bring on the Cornish pasties!!
Looking for information on eating disorders in boys? Worried that your son has an eating disorder? How can you tell if a boy has an eating disorder? In 2009 my 15-year-old son developed anorexia. Now, aged 28, he is recovered & studying psychology in order to help others. This blog tells the story of my son's recovery from anorexia as well as raising awareness of eating disorders in boys.
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