Why I am having more issues this time than in the past

Warning I am going to be talking openly about my anorexia and mentioning weights and restriction in this blog so be prepared for such topics to be discussed

Other times when I have had a relapse on the anorexic front it’s normally been tied into my bipolar at the same time. One event would happen and they would set each other off and in a strange way push each other further and further. So the way to deal with them was to address one of them individually and then you would bring them both under control as a result. Or trying to flip the bipolar so instead of pushing the anorexia along you use the manic energy to give you that help to force yourself to eat.

But this time they have both started off at the same time and triggered by the same event but for the first time, they are both acting independently of each other. I know this because I have my bipolar well under control and it has been since November and yet the anorexia is still trying its best to do what it wants to do. This is a first for me and something that I am not sure how to deal with if the bipolar had not been as bad as it was then I would probably have induced low-level mania to help me gain some control over it; but given how bad it got that’s too much of a high-risk strategy.