They’re not celebrities, just real people dealing with various disorders
Does anyone else out there watch A&E’s series called “Intervention“?
I must admit that I consistently find it to be enthralling. It’s kind of like voyeurism, but it’s also a reminder that any one of us with eating disorders could have wound up on the receiving end of a full-scale intervention, complete with the final chilling question: “Will you get help right now?”
That’s very intense.
I don’t think I would have gone to IP if someone had asked way back when. Even the threats of losing my friends and/or family members wouldn’t have gotten me to stop gripping Ana’s cold hand.
Have you ever been through an intervention? If so, what was it like? And if not, what would you do if you were the one being “intervened”?
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3 opinions for They’re not celebrities, just real people dealing with various disorders
Diet Pepsi Girl
Jun 10, 2008 at 11:41 am
I watch that show. Some of those people are really into drugs and alcohol and it’s scary (I saw one where a man drank vodka out of a giant freezer mug all day long). The ones about eating disorders hit too close to home. I was never the subject of an intervention but at the height of my illness my school counselor met with the principal and my parents and me to decide what to do with me. I was at Remuda Ranch less than a week and a half later. Of course if anyone ever tried that again, I am an adult now and I wouldn’t go. But I know their hearts were in the right place.
Erin
Jul 19, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I love this show! My friends and I gather around like it’s movie night (which is pretty sick I know).
So an intervention? No…not quite.
But my college roommate drove me to an inpatient facility and practically forced me to do the intake (or else she would have called my mother and my study abroad semester would have been out the window). The only thing that saved me was that they didn’t take my insurance. And there was no way I could afford it on my own without notifying my parents (which sort of defeated the purpose since I really wanted to study abroad).
And later, two members of my ed@ group sat me down and said that the way I was going…I needed inpatient treatment or I wasn’t going to make it. It was a lot easier for me to accept what THEY were saying because they had been there and had done inpatient. Whereas my roommate didn’t quite GET IT, she just didn’t know what to do and was simply trying to help.
I opted for outpatient once a week and then it increased to three times a week and now I’m down to twice a week and I STILL NEED SOMEONE TO SIT ME DOWN AND TELL ME THAT I’M ABOUT TO LOSE EVERYTHING IF I DON’T GET THIS UNDER CONTROL. Because otherwise, I’ll forget. I take my friends and my life for granted and I don’t realize that I’m playing with fire. So I would be mortified if my loved ones intervened on me…But I would go. Right now.
Deneice
Jul 19, 2008 at 3:28 pm
For my ED/Depression (mainly depression then) back in 1992. It was some friends in my therapist’s office. I went, stayed for 6 days, got out on meds and when I came home the therapist dropped me and that was the end of that for a long time.
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