Have you ever had an eating disorder?

Question

I was wondering how you dealt with an eating disorder, if you have ever suffered from one. And how did it come about, meaning how did you start the eating disorder?

Answer 1

No, but the eating disorder is a product of an emotion problem.

Answer 2

I have an eating disorder, it's not anorexia, I don't see myself as fat I can see I'd look better with more weight & I don't make myself sick or binge eat.
I just do not want to eat, I never, ever get hungry & can go for days without eating even a mouthfull.
It started about 3 & a half years ago when I was so ill I was bedridden & didn't eat for months, I've eaten since then obviously but only one snack sized meal or one sandwich at the most a day & now I just cannot eat I have no hunger or desire to.

Answer 3

My parents thought I had an eating disorder.. So they took me to the hospital to have this medication which is ment to help you and they told me that I had a stomach of an 8 year old and i was 15. So they put me on these tablets and it was the worst time of my life all i did was be sick after it all the tablets never helped. Now i just eat when i want to eat..

Answer 4

As far as I know there are three major diagnoses, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. The eating disorders are characterized by abnormal eating behaviors and beliefs about eating, weight, and shape. All three have severe consequences to a person's health and can even cause death. There are numerous theories as to the causes and mechanisms leading to eating disorders. Cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy have been found to be most effective for reducing these eating disorders.Certain types of pharmacotherapy, notably antidepressant medications, are also effective. I never suffer from one. Lucky me! For more information please talk to your doctor. And if you want to read more about this subject go to www.answers.com search for "eating disorders", you find a lot of information there! take care!

Answer 5

I even have an ingesting sickness, it quite is not anorexia, i do no longer see myself as fat i will see i might look greater suitable with greater weight & i do no longer make myself ill or binge consume. I do exactly no longer want to consume, I on no account, ever get hungry & can choose for days with out ingesting even a mouthfull. It began approximately 3 & a nil.5 years in the past while i became so sick i became bedridden & did no longer consume for months, i've got eaten on condition that then for sure yet basically one snack sized meal or one sandwich on the main an afternoon & now I in simple terms can not consume I have not have been given any starvation or desire to.

Answer 6

You know..I can't honestly say I had one...I came to a point where I was not eating as much...I went from 115-93 pounds...I was also on an anti depressent also...It was not cool. I looked horrible but I loved the attention i was getting. I have issues I guess thats why....Being too thin is not attractive at all. My boyfriend and everyone else got on me and now im 108 pounds and look great.. When i see pics of how i looked it was horrible..i looked like i had the body of a boy! now i have my boobs and butt back :)

Answer 7

My eating disorder wasn't ever the average case of anorexia or bulemia, however it had aspects of each melding together into one.

We still can't say for certain exactly what was at the core of my disorder. We contribute it to a couple of things that I went through growing up. I was being trained as a classical dancer, I was a member of a dancing troupe, I had auditioned and earned my way into the group,however as my horomones started kicking in and I hit puberty I filled out more and become more shapely and curvy, which caused me to slowly lose the roles I had been given in our performances, my coaches to require more conditioning, and still feeling the need to eat large amounts of food because of the vigourous activities I was putting my body through.
I eventually injured myself in a show's rehersal and had to sit out of all classes and conditioning, when I gained between five to ten pounds. As a result of this, and my injury which was to my ankle and it never fully recovered to it's maximum strength I was dismissed from the company. This was incredibly difficult. I was so ashamed, and even though I had been told it was due to the fact that my ankle would only get worse and worse, eventually if I danced on it, it would give out completely and I'd not even be able to walk on it properly, I was convinced it was the extra 5 or 6 pounds I had put on.

Another factor we considered was my mother. She wasn't perfect herself, and she always carried extra weight, but there was something in her that wanted to hurt me and she was very verbally abusive towards me my entire life.

Eventually I took her words as truth and I began a seriously sick and twisted cycle of binging and purging. This started six years ago. I struggled with this for five years before I recieved any help from a doctor, and the reason I asked for help was my then boyfriend now husband to be, when he found out how sick I was making myself he gave me an ultimatium, I had to get help and attempt to deal with this, or he could no longer stand by me.

I have been hospitalized three times, I have been treated for depression, anxiety, suicidal tendancies, I have learned alot about my past. I am still struggling with eating the right amount of food. It is my tendancy to either eat very little or nothing or far to much, as I am addicted to the effects that food has on me, be it a lack of food and the delicous feeling of hunger and starvation, or the bloated feeling of having eaten until you literally have had to throw up. It is about control and having control over something in your life.

I hope this helps you somehow, remember there is always someone around to talk to... Always.

Answer 8

I thought about it at one point, but then I began to look around me. I noticed that my environment consisted of women who were stick figures (and to me, there's nothing sexy about that). I learned that individuals with eating disorders often had rotted teeth, their lungs could collapse after time, and some suffered from heart attacks at a young age. I figured that none of the women around me had "natural" curves as I did. After I realized that I was not built to be skinny, but muscular (given my genealogy and bone structure), and that women pay mega bucks for what I've got, I embraced that and simply ate what I wanted, but less of it, worked out and attended dance classes to tone up and enhance all that God has given me.

Answer 9

I gave myself one.... basically because I was annoyed at being controlled by my stomach and having to eat when I felt hungry....

So by the power of self-suggestion I convinced myself that my feelings of hunger didn't exist.... until eventually I stopped getting them.... or at least stopped acknowledging them...


And as a result, I stopped ever feeling hunger... AND.... consequentially would just forget to eat for days at a time.

Its gone a bit weird now since my ID attempted to reprogram hunger into another aspect of my psyche. I'm still fighting back... But provided I eat at particular times now... I don't have to worry about "hunger" any more.

Answer 10

Well they say I have anorexia. I'm 88 lbs but I've never been over 93 lbs in my life. I don't think I'm fat I know That I'm disgustingly skinny but I just don't get hungry. I would love to be normal or overweight just for 1 day so I don't feel tired all the time.