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Dance in the rain
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Name: Jen
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1,480
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Join Date: March 28th 2009
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Re: Is this an Eating Disorder? -
June 12th 2009, 02:43 AM
Hi Maria-
Since we're not medical professionals, we can't diagnose you. But it sounds like you have some valid concerns. You are setting weight targets for yourself, see yourself as fat, feeling ill at the sight of food, and throw up after eating. Those are all disordered behaviors. To clear up a common misconception--an individual does NOT need to be underweight in order to have food or eating problems/disorders. In fact, most individuals with eating disorders are not underweight. I think the best thing you can do, Maria, is to let your friends and your mum help you. It IS possible to get to a place where you're not obsessed with food and weight, and you can have a healthy relationship with food. I, and many others, can promise you that.
Keep us posted, and don't hesitate to PM me anytime. Take good care of yourself!
Jen
"Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
“if nothing changed, there’d be no butterflies”
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