At what point is someone considered recovered from anorexia?

At what point is someone considered recovered from anorexia?

You know it's interesting, there's such a debate we have in our field about "am I recovering or am I recovered?" There's a huge debate that goes on in the field and it's interesting because there are many people who are recovered who will say "I am always going to be recovering because that little beast, that what we call "Ed", in the back of our mind can talk to me at any given time. Ed could talk to me today, Ed could talk to me ten years from now. I always feel like he's sitting there lurking in the shadows waiting for that stressful time to show up in my life, and then he's going to pop his ugly head up again." I mean people will say that. So I think that, and there are many people who will say "you know, I got done, I got recovered, I would never go back to that, even I've had the worst stresses I could ever have, but no thoughts came to my mind about restricting." So I think you can have a good percentage of people for whom you know, the Ed is completely a thing of the past, and there are some for whom, you know, there kind of remains a little lingering voice in the back of their mind. It's very individual.