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scared to eat - long term effects?
i have an eating disorder caused by extreme emetophobia, ive hardly eaten for 3 years. in this time i have only eat my "safe foods" which are tuna paste sandwhichs, toast, breakaways (chocolate buiscuits) and only drink fresh orange juice.
This has caused me to feel ill all the time, i'm always in pain and discomfort and regualry feel light headed and sick.
I know my eating disorder has caused damage to my body and has weakened my teeth and causing me to feel ill but my boyfriend and i are really worried about the long term effects this is doing to my body and if it will have any serious effects?
please reply, thank you
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Ofcourse the effects are serious. By not eating enough, your body will get used to not eating so you'll never be hungry anymore and your body might just shut down all together. You also might be weak and tired all the time because you have no food to get energy from. Please try to eat some more even if you have to force yourself. It makes me sad to read these things.
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this will definently have long term effects.
if you don't eat right and you plan to get married and have kids later, you are going to have to eat A LOT more because you are going to be feeding not only yourself but the new baby too.
also, because you only eat certain things, your body is lacking the nutrition that it needs to make muscles, new blood cells and many more things. another thing that is serious about not eating the right things, is that your body will start eating itself to get the right nutrition. your muscles will waste away because your body is taking those to get nutrition.
the reason you are light headed, ill and sick all the time is because you don't eat enough of the right stuff.
you need to eat more veggies, fruit, meat, dairy, carbs...basically you need to look at the nutrition pryamid and eat what it says.
i know this is going to be hard, but you may end up killing yourself if you do not start eating. i also think that you need to talk to your doctor, he/she will give you a lot more information then what i have given you. and the doctor will help in ways that you can't help yourself nor your boyfriend, family, friends or even the information you get on this site can.
i hope that i helped and i also hope that you get better. good luck and God bless
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If you are so worried about yourself then why not make a change??I know that it is hard to just aLL OF A souden start to east again but maybe you could set yourself a goal or maybe jsut try doing things little by little. There are going to be Many challenges throughout this obstacle in your life but the best thing you can do is try to overcome it. You say you have aboyfriend if he is always by your side and he is also worrying maybe all he can do is try to help or convince you or somethign that can help you and keep you healthier. This is your choice though but i personaly tink there are healthier ways to keep in shape not just bacically starving yourself to death
Amanda
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Yes, your eating problems will indeed cause long term effects to your body. Many people who are anorexic end up dieing from heart faliure. If you don't eat enough, or get enough nutrients. An imbalance of electrolytes in your body can cause heart failure. Can you take some vitamins. Can you add powdered vitamins to your orange juice. That may help. At leastyou are drinking organe juice which does provide potasium, which your body needs, and you can die with out it. Suddenly!
Look up eating disorders on the internet, in google, you'll find all kinds of information. If you really want to know the worst of it. Maybe that will be incentive for you to get better.
Michele
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You should really talk to a doctor aobut that, because it Is really bad for your body. It's malnutrition and you can die from it or your body can have dangerous effects from it. You might have to get some therapy for your phobia or even the kind of food you inject or something similiar.
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