I know how you feel . When my therapist talked me into doing an intensive outpatient program , the thing that finally won me over was that I would get to meet other people with eating disorders . It ' s been really nice I ' m out of program now but am still friends with most of the girls and we try to get together once a week . What sucks about it is that eating disorders are competitive , so if you ' re trying to recover spending time with people who have an ED can be counter productive . So you essentially have to choose between friends and your ED , and accept that they ' ll have to choose too . Nonetheless , it ' s really nice to be able to complain with someone about weird ED stuff and know you ' re feeling understood and not being judged .