I feel sorry for people with eating disorders

[Dana]

I'm not trying to seem like a dick. This woman keeps posting photos of herself. i've hung with her in the past and her face is sunk in like crazy. You can see her friggen cheek bones. I wonder what causes the brain of anyone female or male to think that eating then throwing up your food is good for you.

 

[Darrell]

I wish psychology was a perfect science. These people need help.

 

[Dana]

Like I hung with her maybe a year ago for her birthday and she didn't look like she does now. I went to high school with a woman who also has an eating disorder.

 

[Roxi]

A society that paints the picture of perfection as being a bag of bones which is then enforced by the media and movie industry dear.

It's a disease and a nasty one at that.

 

[Natasha]

Not to start a debate, but you DO realize that overeating or addiction to food is ALSO an eating disorder, right??? Now I don't know if you are to the point yet, but I know that I am definitely at the point where it makes me sick to think about how I used to eat and WHAT I used to eat. I know 100% that I absolutely had a food addiction and I know that it was killing me. I'm glad that I've changed my way of life, that's for sure.

 

[pjbleek]

I have an eating disorder (do not know what the doctor called it, sorry!) that is labeled as whenever I go into the kitchen I must find something to eat and its true, I can't go into the kitchen without thinking of grabbing something to munch on. and as much as I try I cannot break this habit (very rarely if I do not emerge from the kitchen without something in my hands)

 

[freakofnature]

And it's not always even about looking slim. At least with anorexia it can be about feeling in control of yourself and having a sense of power.

 

[Dana]

Not to start a debate, but you DO realize that overeating or addiction to food is ALSO an eating disorder, right??? Now I don't know if you are to the point yet, but I know that I am definitely at the point where it makes me sick to think about how I used to eat and WHAT I used to eat. I know 100% that I absolutely had a food addiction and I know that it was killing me. I'm glad that I've changed my way of life, that's for sure.

I don't really look at it like that. Sure there were times where I would overeat or eat out of boredom but I knew what I was doing and I knew my lack of psychical activity was also to blame.

 

[AUDRAA]

she has a distorted view of how she looks thats why they call it a disorder she cant see what you do when she looks at herself

 

[Abcinthia]

I feel sorry for people with eating disorders too. Whether it's anorexia, bulimia, obesity or any of the others in the eating disorder spectrum. But I also feel terribly sorry for their family. Eating Disorders don't just affect the person suffering from it, it affects everyone they are close to.

My cousin had anorexia for many years and was hospitalised for 2-3 years. It's never gone away really. It's a pity because we were close as kids and her eating disorder has really changed her for the worst.

 

[Panacea]

Not to start a debate, but you DO realize that overeating or addiction to food is ALSO an eating disorder, right??? Now I don't know if you are to the point yet, but I know that I am definitely at the point where it makes me sick to think about how I used to eat and WHAT I used to eat. I know 100% that I absolutely had a food addiction and I know that it was killing me. I'm glad that I've changed my way of life, that's for sure.

Most definitely, I know I had a food addiction. Eating disorders are tough, I haven't experienced anorexia or food bulimia, but I have experienced chronic overeating (most of my life) and exercise bulimia (for a few months last summer).

I feel for people who think the only way they can be worth something or have control over their life is to starve or purge, and feeling like food is your only comfort is horribly sad.

Eating disorders are fundamentally tough to overcome, because food is not something one can go "off of", or abandon, like drugs or alcohol or gambling...you have to make food your friend, and see it as nourishment instead of a system of rewards and punishments.