My Eating Disorder Recovery Story *PHOTO EDITION*
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- OH BOY, time for more vulnerability huh?
There are a lot of reasons for why I wanted to put out this video. There's power in visualization.. and while I've put out a verbal explanation of my own story before, I've never actually shown everyone what my journey has looked like..
I'm taking a step out here to show you as much as I possibly can. Why?
Because there's power in honesty and openness. There's power for people going through an eating disorder / anorexia. There's power for people who aren't in an eating disorder, but that know others who are.
My hope is that this episode will help connect with you a little bit more.
For those of you going through an eating disorder right now, I hope this gives you HOPE. I hope it shows you what the recovery path looks like, and that you're NOT alone in the middle of all of this.
For those of you on the outside (not necessarily in an eating disorder), I hope this gives a more clear picture of how an eating disorder can physically affect someone. I hope it allows you to recognize it a little bit better.
In other words, I'm going to show you what I looked like when I developed Anorexia. I'm going to show you what it looked like for me to recover, then relapse again in college, and recover fully.
I sincerely hope you receive something valuable from this visual journey through my eating disorder story / recovery.
Stay safe out there, folks! Let me know if you need anything 🙏🏼
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Oh boy, we’ve got a full walkthrough of my ED journey, PHOTOS AND ALL. Sincerely though, I hope this vid gives you hope and shows you what a full ED journey looks like (with all its ups and downs). Hope you’re all doin well - stay strong out there 🙏🏼🤟🏼
Thanks for being brave enough to share your story and give the male anorexia community hope. You rock ✌️
SC_Gamer Really appreciate it 🤟🏼 The more stories we have to share in this space the better. Always tryin to represent the guys out there!
I am usually never commenting, but I want to tell you that I find these videos Extremely helpful and makes me feeling less alone.
I have struggled since I were 13 and is currently turning 17, I wish it didn't had to take this many years.
I hope you stay safe during corona and thank you for sharing your story!
Hi Cameron. I'm 20 years and actually in recovery now I think. Basically my anorexia background is oddly the same as yours (I'm struggling with it since I'm a 12 boy). Honnestly I was almost giving up in my recovery one week ago that I started with my ED doctor. Now I'm not. I 've found your channel 5 days ago in the very beginning of my recovery and how to share you my gratitude... You really make me accept that anorexia is NOT a shame for anybody and furthermore it's NOT a shame for a man to have anorexia because this feeling had COMPLETLY reinforced the loneliness that I was feeling in addition with the social loneliness that ED already creat. Best of all you gave me hope in order to defeat quicker this SHIT (which is not gonna continue to lead MY LIFE).
Just take care of you :)
(french native speaker here sorry for the spelling and
grammar
stuff)
Hey Guillaume! Thank you a TON for commenting. It's encouraging for me to hear your kind words, and to see just how much you're stepping into recovery. You might not even realize it yet, but these steps you're taking right now are HUGE steps into full recovery. I can already tell you've grown so much.
There IS hope, and you're ALREADY acting it all out. You're already stepping towards your true self, and pushing that ED mentality further and further away. Keep on pushing, keep on fighting for life 🤟🏼 Stay safe out there, and let me know if there's anything you need.
(Your English is great by the way!)
All I have to say is WHAT THE HECK, i don’t know how did I find your youtube channel but I am glad I did. DUUUDE I follow you for like 12 hours and already became obsessed with your videos, they are educational and help me sooo soo much! Thank you and keep going strong, greetings from Croatia ❤️🇭🇷
Thanks so much Ema! Im seriously so grateful for your encouragement and support 🙏🏼 More than everything though, Im glad that these videos actually HELP! That's the goal with this whole thing! Keep on pushing forward in recovery - let me know if you need anything!
Cameron Yoder I would like to talk to you on instagram or which ever social media you have, you seem like a mature, recovered person who can help, sorry for bothering you
Thank you for sharing your story as a male individual. I believe it is much needed. I have struggled with an ED myself and am now mostly recovered. Even though I struggle with my body image a great deal still and also with many other mental health issues I couldn’t be more glad to be where I am now in terms of my anorexia. But it was a battle I cannot even put in words how hard this was. I had to travel to the other side of the world to get help but I did it. I survived it all. And it was so worth it.
It’s a hard battle to fight, isn’t it? Words and stories can’t break down just how difficult it is to recover from an eating disorder.. but hey, Im glad you took those big steps, and I’m glad you fought HARD to get to where you are now. Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and look at how far we’ve come.. keep on fighting, and keep on living 🙏🏼 Thank you for sharing, and thank you for all of the encouragement!
Thank YOU for your kind reply and encouragement 🙏🏻
Yes it’s extremely hard and words indeed cannot illustrate HOW hard it is. And this is exactly why I am an eating disorder advocate. I want people to know that it is beyond difficult, yes but also entirely possible. I want people to know how worth it it is.
Thank you so much for your personal story, this whole time I thought that I was completely alone in our pretty complicated world. I want you to know, that you definitely helped me and will help a lot of people in the future. Thanks you, sincerely
I'm watching this videk and went to seek help... i've been trying to recover since december from last year and had a major relapse... so tysm for this video, I was honest with my mom and told her what happened and what I'm dealing with, she will make sure I'm eating according to a meal plan and that I have at least two fear foods two times a week... tysm again
Stay strong Leo! Take every day one step at a time. Recovery is possible. Trust me when I say... it's 100% worth it. You got this, friend 🙏🏼 STAY STONG
@@CameronYoder tysm!!! ✊🏽💚
I know at my lowest I was 90ish lbs, saying I was more to avoid attention(doesn't work) being how I never enter inpatient and recovering on my *own, for it was nearly getting hit at 3am in the freezing 20s and knowing of Gods love, for me to seek self help. I know recovery is not easy. But I thank you for your support and advice you give. We're all in this together and we can overcome all things.
You're 100% right - we're all in this together. Sharing insights, experiences, stories... it's how we beat this thing. Stay strong man. Take every day one step at a time 🤟🏼
@@CameronYoder I also did have a few questions,
1. Did you not crave certain food that your previous liked and tried to reincorporate and when you did, it did nothing for you?
2. How to challenge and let go of "rules" when you can't detect them all and they may change day-to-day? Some even healthy, such as eating fruit (at certain time, is where it is unhealthy)
3. Letting go of eating at certain times of the day(due to rule) but work, hunger etc makes you want to eat anyway?
I know each person is different and that what makes it difficult, but if any of these applied to you and you can give advice, thank you.
My man! Love the video dudee.
Thanks dude! Much appreciated 🙏🏼
CRAZY how similar your eating disorder story is to my own! Developed late in middle school, low first couple years of HS, leveled out senior year, relapsed freshman/sophomore year of college. Been up and down since
Great video Cameron, Thank you for sharing your story. Recovery is a journey
This video was truly something else. Seeing the difference between you both at 2007 and 2014 makes the journey so much stronger and it makes me really proud that you've overcome those tough times to become the person that you are today, helping others deal with their own journeys!
Ana Carneiro Thank you so much! It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure.. was crazy for myself making this video going back to see all those old photos side by side again. Just puts so much into perspective 🙏🏼
Great video man, thanks so much for sharing the journey x
Giften Etienne Of course 🙏🏼 Always willing to share, and an just hopeful that this will encourage others to share their own story as well. Hope you’re doing well!
Thanks for sharing..just discovered ur channel.
You are an inspiration. I’m also trying to raise awareness as I’m recovering myself
Just subscribed..stay connected 💗
Oh look, the outfit from you last insta stories. I guess this was recorded like 3 hours ago? XD
CHALLENGE ME NEO PRETTY OBSERVANT HUH? 😂👀👀
Cameron Yoder HEHEHE
You look incredible and are so inspiring truly ❤❤
The picture of you in 2007 at your worst you're still cuter than I was. 😢
Thanks so much!
Keep going! You're going to be famous and you're sooo inspiring!
thanks so much for the encouragement Olivia!! 🙏🏼
Hi, it’s me again hahah now on YT. I watched your almost 30 minutes and I feel really empathic with you. Course there are time that you can feel good and then bad and again good... kind of roller coaster, but I think that the most important is to still fighting minute per minute. My story it’s similar to yours after almost 15 years with this shit hahaha ....actually I have my own video with my ED story into my channel but in spanish I don’t know if you can speak this lenguage hahah (hope u can)..!! BTW thank you so much for share your story ... you really inspire to me a lot to keep fighting on this way 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻!!!
Greetings form MEXICO 😃!! And take care!!
Yoooo what's up! Long time no see 😂 I can speak a little bit of Spanish! I've gotta check it out, thanks so much for pointing it out to me. Appreciate your encouragement - keep on sharing your story (And making killer videos!)
19:42 🔥🔥🔥
Bro that's YOU
Awesome video bro, it really is an up and down recovery. it helped me out alot!!! How much water would you drink btw and what was your workout routine?
Thanks bro, appreciate that! Recovery is literally made of ups and downs.. Water-wise, I usually try to drink 136-170oz of water each day (loosely, though I don't track too much). I'll post my workout routine soon 😎
wow!!
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5:43 this is more of a personal question, but did you ever compare yourself with your brother?
thank you for sharing your story!! i’m glad you are in a better place now :)
Hey Sydney! Thank you for the encouragement, and great question.. Long story short, I definitely compared myself to my brother. A lot of it all has to do with me comparing myself to just about everyone, but because he was my older brother, and because we were so close, I ended up comparing myself to him a lot actually (There's definitely a lot of that 'look up to my older brother' sort of thing there too). It's definitely a complicated piece of the ED story, but I weighed my comparison with him more than a lot of others.. Great question.
Oh muh guh, it takes you forever to get to the point