I suffer from an eating disorder, I don't however, use diet pills (the community that I stumbled upon you're little request for attention.. yeah I said it.) Soo I joined just so I could respond to you, but then I decided to respond here.
Having been through therapy (YES, I am intelligent enough to get myself help, thank-you very much) I've learned WHY it is one chooses to starve themselves/ purge/ binge/over exercise.. and have talked about it so many times that I can put it into words easily for you.
This is going to come as a shock now- ITS NOT ABOUT FOOD, WEIGHT, OR BODY IMAGE! Yeah! I know us anorexics/bulimics are sooo dumb because we spend all our time worrying about food, but that isn't the REAL issue. That is just what you see on the surface. The real problems are underneath.. i.e. history of abuse as a child, death in the family, alcoholic parent, rough childhood, there could be a nummmmber of things. Basically, it STARTS with something that is HARD to deal with. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, some people have a hard time dealing with stress/ difficult situations/tragedies! (no!?!) SOOO... because they can't fix the things going on in their life, they focus on something that they know they CAN do something about. And whats that Miss Vaaanity?? (pretty hypocritical name don't you think?) Yep, you guessed it--- THEMSELVES! They turn inward and start controlling their bodies as a way to deal with whats going on around them. (OMG, there is suddenly a reason as to why the anorexic isn't eating!) And it's not like they make a concious decision "I am going to stop eating because my mom is dying of cancer and I can't deal with it". Noo.. it happens unconciously.. the way ALCOHOLICS start drinking to deal with their problems, and at first its just a small problem and before they know it, its way out of control. When you stop eating, you numb yourself. When you binge.. you are able to escape from feeling whatever you were feeling, because in the moment, all you feel is the high you get from eating. Usually, when asked to keep a journal of WHEN they binge and purge, bulimics find that it is brought on by stressful/tense situations. When you throw up, the muscles in your stomach that were once all tense from being anxious are now relaxed. The person suddenly feels all better. HMMMM... COULD THERE ACTUALLY BE A REASON BEHIND IT?? I thought they were just puking because they were stupid and weight obsessed?! Maybe SOMEONE ELSE is the stupid one.
And as for depression. Its a real thing. Study it. Do the research before you do the talking. The average person would not be able to understand what depression is because that is like a white person trying to "fully" understand racism. If you dont experience it for yourself, you can't possibly have an opinion about what it is or isn't.
You said you couldn't possibly know about what depression is like... you're right. Well the same goes for an eating disorder.
NOW YOU KNOW.
Obviously you don't everything Miss Thing. Try educating yourself. As it is, your anorexic/bulimic jokes ("I'm going to throw up now"??) have been said so many times before you I almost wish you tried to be original so I didn't have to read the same lame ones again. And you laugh at it as if you're the first person to think to say that! THATS funnier than you're pathetic attempts to make fun of eating disorders. I really wish I could see you in person so I could argue point to point and show you just how flawed your way of thinking is. I know everything there is to know about this subject. You don't.. though you seem to think you do. Tell me how wrong I am now and I'll show you how shallow your thinking is.
Having been through therapy (YES, I am intelligent enough to get myself help, thank-you very much) I've learned WHY it is one chooses to starve themselves/ purge/ binge/over exercise.. and have talked about it so many times that I can put it into words easily for you.
This is going to come as a shock now- ITS NOT ABOUT FOOD, WEIGHT, OR BODY IMAGE! Yeah! I know us anorexics/bulimics are sooo dumb because we spend all our time worrying about food, but that isn't the REAL issue. That is just what you see on the surface. The real problems are underneath.. i.e. history of abuse as a child, death in the family, alcoholic parent, rough childhood, there could be a nummmmber of things. Basically, it STARTS with something that is HARD to deal with. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, some people have a hard time dealing with stress/ difficult situations/tragedies! (no!?!) SOOO... because they can't fix the things going on in their life, they focus on something that they know they CAN do something about. And whats that Miss Vaaanity?? (pretty hypocritical name don't you think?)
Yep, you guessed it--- THEMSELVES! They turn inward and start controlling their bodies as a way to deal with whats going on around them. (OMG, there is suddenly a reason as to why the anorexic isn't eating!) And it's not like they make a concious decision "I am going to stop eating because my mom is dying of cancer and I can't deal with it". Noo.. it happens unconciously.. the way ALCOHOLICS start drinking to deal with their problems, and at first its just a small problem and before they know it, its way out of control.
When you stop eating, you numb yourself. When you binge.. you are able to escape from feeling whatever you were feeling, because in the moment, all you feel is the high you get from eating. Usually, when asked to keep a journal of WHEN they binge and purge, bulimics find that it is brought on by stressful/tense situations. When you throw up, the muscles in your stomach that were once all tense from being anxious are now relaxed. The person suddenly feels all better. HMMMM... COULD THERE ACTUALLY BE A REASON BEHIND IT?? I thought they were just puking because they were stupid and weight obsessed?! Maybe SOMEONE ELSE is the stupid one.
And as for depression. Its a real thing. Study it. Do the research before you do the talking. The average person would not be able to understand what depression is because that is like a white person trying to "fully" understand racism. If you dont experience it for yourself, you can't possibly have an opinion about what it is or isn't.
You said you couldn't possibly know about what depression is like... you're right. Well the same goes for an eating disorder.
NOW YOU KNOW.
Obviously you don't everything Miss Thing. Try educating yourself. As it is, your anorexic/bulimic jokes ("I'm going to throw up now"??) have been said so many times before you I almost wish you tried to be original so I didn't have to read the same lame ones again. And you laugh at it as if you're the first person to think to say that! THATS funnier than you're pathetic attempts to make fun of eating disorders. I really wish I could see you in person so I could argue point to point and show you just how flawed your way of thinking is. I know everything there is to know about this subject. You don't.. though you seem to think you do. Tell me how wrong I am now and I'll show you how shallow your thinking is.
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