Recovery Questionnaire

Welcome to the Recovery Questionnaire, the visitor–created section of the recovery cooperative! Here’s your chance to express yourself, share with others, and contribute to our collective strength in recovery.

Guidelines for responders:

  • The purpose of this forum is to promote healthy recovery through shared wisdom and experience. Any contributions, however heartfelt, that might be hurtful to the recovery of others will be screened. Pro–ana comments or advice on any kind of dieting will be excluded. Disrespectful, sarcastic or demeaning language will also be screened.
  • Since each person’s recovery is unique, this will not be a forum for challenging one another’s experiences. On the other hand, if you find a response that inspires your thinking, you’re free to expand on it in your own responses.
  • You can be brief or expansive in your responses. Please limit longer responses to 500(ish) words.
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Recovery Questionnaire

1. What has helped (did help) you most in your eating disorder treatment?

2. What do (did) you do to help make your eating disorder treatment successful?

3. Which of the following common components of eating disorder treatment have you used and what would you say about their contribution to your recovery?

Individual therapy

Group therapy or support groups

12 Step/OA

Family therapy

Nutritional counseling

Trauma treatment

Medication

Hospitalization, partial hospitalization or residential treatment

4. Are you using (did you use) any kind of supplementary services, practices or support that seem (seemed) especially helpful? (For instance, yoga, massage, art or music therapy, acupuncture, an online support group . . .) Please say how it helps (helped).

5. What has helped you the most with slips and relapses? Did anything useful come out of these experiences? (For instance, a new insight about yourself, learning to reach out for help, new recovery practices . . .?)

6. How has recovery affected your sense of personal identity?

7. What has surprised you about recovery?

8. What would you like someone who hasn’t yet begun the journey of recovery to know?

Your Name (required)

What You'd Like To Be Called (required)

Your City/State/Country

Your Email (required)

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