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i think i have an eating disorder?
so im a 19 year old girl. i weigh about 110 lbs at the least. im not exactly sure cause i haven't weighed myself in a while. well, last year sometime early august, i made myself throw up after eating too much at a birthday party. i told myself i was going to lose weight no matter what it would take. so for two or three weeks, i exercised day-in-day out and either i wouldn't eat, or if i did it was something like oatmeal or cereal that i would later throwup. (calories began to scare me) i weighed 115 lbs then, and hiding this was easy at this point because my family was doing horrible moneywise. i had just graduated and i couldn't find a job so i would basically stay home all day alone. i'll admit i was a little depressed with all this including i'd some problems at school before graduating so i wouldn't get out much. so after those two or three weeks, i went out one night, and all people would do is compliment me and look at me in a good way. my mom and family noticed the difference but they just told me to stop losing weight. well i didn't, but i started eating a little bit more, sometimes without throwing up. then its been like this ever since. i'll go a couple weeks without doing it, (puking) and then a week where i will. i don't know how to end it and i really need advice. please help!
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It sounds to me like you do have a mild eating disorder. You need to talk to someone you trust. A best friend, a boyfriend, a family member. Someone that you can talk to and get support from. You need to start a support system with that person. When you feel the urge to make yourself vomit, call them. If they care about you enough, they will talk to you through the urge. You need to understand that at 19, 110 lbs is low. Of course this fluctuates with height, but I'm assuming you're tall enough that this is a low weight because your family told you to stop losing weight. Puking is never a good way to lose weight. Not to mention the fact that it permanently messes up your stomach lining, esophagus and teeth. Try to get out of your house more. It sounds like you got caught in a depressing rut with friendship/boyfriend and family problems. This was a good time for you to try to gain control of something (your weight) because you felt like things were out of your hands. You most likely wanted just one thing to grasp onto that was all your own and that you had power over. The people that are closest to you will be able to tell you how they feel about it and help to boost your confidence.
If talking to someone close to you doesn't help and you're still making yourself vomit (at all) you will need to see a therapist for further treatment.
Inbox me if you have more questions, good luck!
Darby(:
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