I used to be anorexic, now I binge and
purge. I am 5'2 and 80lbs. I feel like
the world doesn't understand because
eating disorders- everyone thinks of white
middle- class females. I am an indian
girl living in the us for the past ten
years. My parents don't even know what an
eating disorder is. They are also
extremely overprotective so I feel by not
eating i'm saying "no, I don't have to do
everything you say" is this a right thing
to do? I need to talk to someone without
them knowing. Please help :cry:
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lostoyou
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 170 Location: Ireland
There Is Always Hope Posted: 03-26-05 13:11pm
Hi, I hope you are doing well today. I
know what your going through isn't easy
because eating disorders can take over a
persons life and it makes it more
difficult when your parents are clueless
to what they are. An eating disorder is
not about how you behave around food
although that is a part in it, eating
disorder are about how you think and feel
and a person who suffers from an eating
disorder would think and feel very
negativilty about themselves and how
others view them. You gave a pretty good
example with your parents, you are using
food as a controlling mechanism, a way to
make sure your parents can't protect you
from everything and your right they can't.
Do you mind me asking what age you are
because I am from ireland and once you are
18 yuo can go to therapy without involving
your parents, so maybe that could work for
you. It is so important that you do get
help because the behaviour around food
will only change when your thoughts and
feelings become more positive, therapy is
really the best way to recover from an
eating disorder. The longer you live with
an eating disorder without getting help
the longer it will take to recover but
remember that everyone can recover, there
is always hope. You are worth so much
more then this, you deserve so much more
out of life. You did not choose to have
an eating disorder but you can choose to
recover from it, you can choose to fight
it and you can choose to be free of it.
Choose life, choose to get better choose
to fight. You are very strong and I know
that because everyone with an eating
disorder is extremely strong, sure look at
what we do to ourselves, many people
wouldn't be able to survive but we do.
Use your strenght to help you please don't
use it against you.
If you have any questions or you just need
to talk please don't hestite to write to
me, i'd love to hear how your gettting on.
Recovery is possible and you deserve to
recover.
