Un-bulimic?

Postby scampy » Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:28 am

Can eating disorders just go away by themselves? I know it sounds naive and maybe a little too hopeful considering the extensive therapy people usually need but it used to be the sole focus of my life and now I just don't care that much.

Back when I was diagnosed I was measuring foods, counting calories, weighing myself up to 10 times a day and became obsessed with every intricate detail of weight loss. I learnt every mathematic formula and spent my life working out new diets, educating myself on nutrition/exercise, everything. I was in pain every day from fasting, restricting, binging, purging and over-exercising. I used to feel extreme emotions based on how much I weighed that day and how much I was eating. I went from being ecstatic one day to contemplating suicide the next. But now for some reason I just don't feel the absolute NEED to do it anymore. Occasionally I purposely overexercise or undereat and I still purge every so often but I think now it's more of a substitute for cutting myself as it's easier to hide than cuts and bruises all over my body.

Until a week ago I was struggling with binging daily, but I am currently taking a diet pill that suppresses my appetite, which has helped an enormous amount - no binging, no purging, just eating healthy and unprocessed foods in moderate amounts. Problem is it also makes me dizzy, kills my energy and gives me chest pains. I can't sleep yet I'm tired all the time, and almost all day I feel like I'm about to vomit. I know all the potentially fatal hazards of taking this particular drug but I just don't care. I can't stand my body and almost always wear baggy clothes to cover how disgusting I am, but aren't most people overly concious about their looks? And people without eating disorders do dangerous things to lose weight too - yo-yo dieting, surgery, smoking etc.... I can't tell whats normal and what isn't, and I don't want to be treated for something that I don't even have.

So what do I do?
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Postby Erieus » Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:42 pm

Hi Scampy!

Maybe I can help a little...?

I am going though a similar thing as you. I used to be anorexic and developed a binge-habit, then I tried to be normal with eating but couldnt still stop bingeeating, then began to purge by fasting. I am still in this mess, but I am so tired of it seems to calm down slowly. I dont fast as much and hard as I used to.

I have told myself I have stopped forever and from this day and forward I will be so good to myself. I have never lasted 2 weeks... I am starting to cut myself also.

I dont know which way to go, just as you. I have told myself to stop caring about my appearance, weight and clothes. I thought I have all time later when Im free to look healthy and eat well, and stop caring about my weight at the moment as long as I try to stop with my eatingcycle. Now Im not as obsessed with weight etc anymore but I think I always take it too far and I cant even shave myself, instead Im super lazy about my appearance. I dont know whats good.

Are you also having these thoughts?

Maybe it would be good to decide to stop caring about your appearance and focus on whats in your head. When your free of these habits you got all time in the world to look healthy, you know? Looking slim in the healthy way from healthy habits, eating with pride and joy with good contact with your bodys needs.

I really hope you get better some day, just as I want to be better. Take care of yourself! Bye!
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