What happens when a person with an eating disorder starts therapy?

This is a brief summary, from my point of view as a psychotherapist specializing in treating people with eating disorders, of what can happen

People calll and write me, sharing their pain, hope and frustration as they look for a way out of an eating disorder and into a life of freedom.  In looking for various structures that can help them see where they are in their eating disorder experience I came upon the basic and familiar outline of a classic play.  A classic play consists of Act I, Act II, Act III. See if you can find where you are in this design.

You are really searching for information now. You are checking out self help manuals, exploring affirmations, reading the symptoms of eating disorders, scaring yourself with medical information on the consequences of obesity, starvation and purging, lurking on eating disorder discussion lists, writing notes and information requests to online authors and psychotherapists.