meoww
Silver Member
I have successfully and unsuccessfully lost weight over the years but I feel I definitely have some form of eating disorder, I occasionally have small binges and sometimes purge too, but its more than that.
I can trace my whole life of eating, from being a baby that wouldnt eat at all, (with a distraught mother forcing me to eat) to a fat 10 year old on a diet already building huge issues with food and it just continued from there.
I feel my eating can best be described as OCD which is a term commonly used by people (often who dont realise its true meaning) it simply stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder; an obsession -recurring thought that cant escape my mind (food) compulsion -behaviour or action that relieves the obsession (eating) disorder -the thoughts and actions being out of the ordinary, I believe they are, waking up every day worrying and thinking about what I will eat, it must be tasty and satisfying but will it make me fat, will it be too healthy and I have to eat something else?
Anyway I waffled on a bit there, but basically has anyone been to therapy or a clinic or something for eating disorders? Do you think its worth trying?
I did Lighterlife and I need something more personalised than that as they had so many assumptions like "your parents told you to clear your plate" and I often had different things to say and ask that my counsellor couldnt answer.
I can trace my whole life of eating, from being a baby that wouldnt eat at all, (with a distraught mother forcing me to eat) to a fat 10 year old on a diet already building huge issues with food and it just continued from there.
I feel my eating can best be described as OCD which is a term commonly used by people (often who dont realise its true meaning) it simply stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder; an obsession -recurring thought that cant escape my mind (food) compulsion -behaviour or action that relieves the obsession (eating) disorder -the thoughts and actions being out of the ordinary, I believe they are, waking up every day worrying and thinking about what I will eat, it must be tasty and satisfying but will it make me fat, will it be too healthy and I have to eat something else?
Anyway I waffled on a bit there, but basically has anyone been to therapy or a clinic or something for eating disorders? Do you think its worth trying?
I did Lighterlife and I need something more personalised than that as they had so many assumptions like "your parents told you to clear your plate" and I often had different things to say and ask that my counsellor couldnt answer.