The Five REAL Stages of Recovery - Therapists Not Allowed

My friend wrote this and it's the realistic stages of recovery and not the therapisty-fluffy textbook steps of recovery. Only one who has been though an ED could know this. It's brilliant. Here it is:

The Five Stages of Recovery

By E G L

Denial:

Me, get better?

Recovery's not for me

Won't do it, don't need it

This isn't my body

Anger:

How could you do this to me?

Gain all this weight---don't you see?

How huge I've gotten in this so called "recovery?"

Fuck this--I'm gonna do my own thing

Will not accept this pain

Don't give a shit if it's selfish

I don't have a thing to gain

In going your way

No--Ed and I are having our say

Bargaining:

Ok, ok, you win

I give up, I give in

I'll lose just a LITTLE weight

Cuz these voices won't abate

Just have a few pounds to lose

Won't you give me this,

allow me to prove--

That I can have a little

here and there

Life and death, a line laid

bare?

Depression:

Oh, I don't care

Don't even dare

To try

I'll just retire to my lair

And merely cry and cry

Acceptance:

This might be the only way

For me to find some grace today

I may be in denial,

depressed or pissed

But I won't give in;

I will not miss

Out on a life of

laughter and love

I want the world to see what

I'm made of.