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do i have an eating disorder.
17/f. i have had an eating disorder before but i got better and got over it. is it back??? =s
i dnt eat much. somedays i barely eat anything but i always end up eating at least one thing each day so its not that bad.
but sometimes i go a bit crazy and eat lots and lots until im completely full and then i throw it up. wats wrong with me?
i will go for heaps long hardly eating anything to eating everything in site and then throwing it up.
how can i stop myself thinking of food and stop myself eating heaps at once.
[i think its called bindge eating not sure but the i throw it up cos i eat too much] wen i eat lots i cant stop myselft from eating until i make myself sick. i dnt get it!!! =[ PLZ HELP!!!
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You know what you're doing is not healthy and is wrong or you wouldn't be asking this question on Advicenators. I'm glad you're realizing that your current habits are not good and are cycling back to a problem you had awhile back, but it also means you need to take some steps to get healthy again.
If you are going days with barely eating and, suddenly, one day you binge until you vomit--something is wrong. Most people with eating disorders will do this at some point, especially the gorging so much they vomit routine or binging and forcing themselves to vomit.
Seek out a good therapist and start there. They will help guide you through underlying problems that may have caused you to resort back to this sort of damaging behavior.
Eating disorders are, obviously, a mental issue. You cannot "catch" it and wait for you to get over it like people do with colds. You cannot just keep doing what you're doing either or you may end up in a casket. You know what you're doing is wrong and self-destructive, so, please, get some help for your problem.
No matter what "tip" I give you to get healthy, it may not help. You may end up doing what you've been doing or altering the behavior enough to feel better about it. The problem is, you are sick. When people get sick, they need doctors. You need a doctor. Preferably some sort of therapist :)
If you're able to, open up to a parent or guardian about your recent behavior. Let them know that you feel you need to seek help from a professional to overcome this. Tell them everything that you told us so they know how serious this is and how harmful it can get. Then, when you see your therapist--tell them EVERYTHING. They will be able to help you relax in life, de-stress, manage yourself better, and overcome this disorder.
To overcome an eating disorder, you have to do the same things you do when you actually have the eating disorders. This basically means that when an anorexic girl is counting calories and making she is only having 100 a day, to get better she has to count calories to make sure she gets a healthy amount each day. It is very, very hard for people to do this because it's very, very easy to slip back into the routine of bad habits.
You can't just stop exercising, right? Many people with eating disorders over-exercise though. They figure, "I'll do this for 3 hours then take a break for 3 hours and then do another 3!" Instead, to get better and stay healthy, you have to time yourself in a better amount, "I'll do this for an hour today and then I will stop so my body can rest." It's hard, you see.
Eating disorders are very difficult to get over and many people never do completely recover. It's as simple as I've listed above. You have to do the exact same things only alter them to healthier ways of living. This is why a therapist is desperately needed. Usually there are some major things going on in the person's life that is overwhelming them and they feel they need to control something more.
It's likely you won't get better on your own. It's a very hard path to go down. Please, turn back while you can and take the hand of a therapist and the hand of a parent. You can make it through this with them.
If you have any more questions please feel free to ask me! :)
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Personally, what I say is if it is getting to be all to familiar, then you've got what ever it is again.
If you think your eating disorder is back, I strongly recommend that you go to a doctor to be properly diagnosed.
My two cents, from what I can gather, you didn't eat much when you first had you eating disorder, right? Well, I get the feeling that now, you feel you need to compensate for what you didn't eat, by overloading yourself with food till you're sick. Does that make sense?
But get checked out first and take the doctors advice.
I hope this helped,
triquetra
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