(I apologize in advance for venting like this.)
I have been binge eating for six months straight, and I’ve gained so much weight. I now weigh almost 80 pounds. I know that’s still really underweight, I know I shouldn’t weigh 60 or 70 or even 80 pounds – I’m an adult for fuck’s sake. But it doesn’t matter how hard I try to look at things rationally and objectively… I swear I look like I weigh twice what I do, and I’m so fat and bursting with so much self-loathing that I can’t stand it anymore. I’m never going to see myself the way others see me, food is never going to be able to just be food again, I’m never going to be able to stop using starving/eating as coping mechanisms, I’m never going to be able to stop my mind from constantly thinking about food…
I am so tired of having an eating disorder.
I feel so fat I want to die, and, honestly, at this point, I think dying is probably the only way my eating disorder is ever going to go away.
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You dont have to apologize on this website, this is what it’s here for.
Have you tried talking to a therapist or taking medication? also, i hear hypnotherapy works, even though it sounds stupid.
Thanks.
I’ve had ridiculous amounts of therapy, but somehow still can’t ever seem to truly change the way I think/feel, or to do very well at changing the way I behave. Medications have helped me slightly, but not enough to really make a difference. I’ve been hospitalized as well, but that just made things FAR worse. I’ve never tried hypnotherapy. I find it hard to imagine myself being that susceptible to it; I don’t think I’d be able to let my guard down. Then again, I do have lots of dissociative symptoms, which I believe I’ve read tend to be associated with susceptibility to hypnosis, so who knows? Something to consider.