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TW: Anorexia/ED

miaxx

Does anyone else struggle with an Eating Disorder?

I'm in a kind of quasi-recovery but I'm starting to miss being ill.

What is everyones best way of dealing with these thoughts and feelings?

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  • I mean, eating disorders are complicated, and there could be multiple factors involved. Sometimes people don't like being at a healthy weight, because of a bad experience that happened that they're trying to avoid. Or sometimes it's because they're comparing themselves to others, so they push themselves into illness because they don't feel good enough. And sometimes people get treated better when they are ill that it becomes addictive. There can be a ton of reasons. 

    But if you are missing something about being ill, then you have to find what kind of things are so alluring about being ill to you, because what you are missing will draw you back into being ill. And my suggestion would be to incorperate what you are missing into your life, without having the illness be the reason for bring what you are missing into your life.

    And even if you are at a healthy weight at the moment, you can still ask a doctor or a therapist for support. People with eating disorders can often fluctuate between illness and healthiness, so even if you are at a healthy weight, it does not completely void you from getting the support you need. 

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  • I mean, eating disorders are complicated, and there could be multiple factors involved. Sometimes people don't like being at a healthy weight, because of a bad experience that happened that they're trying to avoid. Or sometimes it's because they're comparing themselves to others, so they push themselves into illness because they don't feel good enough. And sometimes people get treated better when they are ill that it becomes addictive. There can be a ton of reasons. 

    But if you are missing something about being ill, then you have to find what kind of things are so alluring about being ill to you, because what you are missing will draw you back into being ill. And my suggestion would be to incorperate what you are missing into your life, without having the illness be the reason for bring what you are missing into your life.

    And even if you are at a healthy weight at the moment, you can still ask a doctor or a therapist for support. People with eating disorders can often fluctuate between illness and healthiness, so even if you are at a healthy weight, it does not completely void you from getting the support you need. 

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