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Anorexia Nervosa |
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15/12/03 (95 review reads) |
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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: No clothes fit me, I have no energy, I'm setting a bad example to teens and letting people down
My name is Sarah and I live in England, I have been diagnosed with anorexia within the past year and a half but...theres one problem (please excuse me if i get carried away)
I have been extremely underweight ALL of my life , i was premature. My mum was severley underweight ALL through her life...my dad was underweight, ALL my brothers and sisters and generations of grandparents in our family...exactly the same!
I've never eat loads but at the same time I've never been without food. I'm 18 now and still struggle to finnish a meal. I do NOT have dellusions about being fat... I know I am skinny but I'm so used to not eating a lot that its hard for me and everyone is so stereotypical about it. I am not throwing up or starving myself on purpose...I'm lost...
I love food and I love to eat. At the end of a hard day I will be starving hungry...I cook a nice dinner... I eat about half of whats on the plate and I get so annoyed with myself when I cant manage anymore...and whats worse is ten mins after I scrape off my plate into the bin and sit down....my stomach groans that I'm hungry again...
At the moment of writing this I'm hungry and I have to stay in this computer class where averyone judges me on my weight.
As anybody else with an eating disorder would say...
'No-one Understands'
I'm about 5 1/2 Stone and I'm just over five ft tall. My doctor (another person who thinks he understands..huh..yeah right), is supprised that I have periods and perfectly regular ones at that. My skinny frame is INHERITED and I'm lost in myself... trying to get out of it.
I was in hospital last Christmas cos I finally wanted something done. I asked if there was any tablets that would give me an appetite but they told me there wasn't any. A month or so I was watching Ricki Lake and it was about anorexia. A woman was give a lot of attention and al
so...medicine to give her an appitite! I felt so alone...I have friends and family close by and I still feel so alone. I really want to do this for myself but everytime I think I'm on a winning streak...I go downhill again.
I want help but I'm also willing to help myself as well...what can I do?
I'm so tired and pathetic I really need help.
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- 26/12/04 another comment; sorry, anorexia nervosa is not a disease that is easily recognisable; sorry to whoever said that its rubbish. the reason being is that a bmi of 17.5 is required to be diagnosed as anorexic, someone with a body mass index at this level would appear underweight yes but would not look amancipated. stastically those who die from a result of their anorexia die from heart or renal failure- NOT from how skinny they are. there is not a direct connection between how skinny you are and how near to death.
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- 26/12/04 hey there i a psychology student and i'm really really surprised you have been given a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, was this by a gp or a experienced mental health professional? the reason i am surprised is that based on what you have written you fail to meet three of the major diagnostic criteria for anorexia, namely the intense fear of fatness, rapid weight loss, and the cessation of menstrual periods. However it may be that your not being honest with yourself. I'm not sure of your situation. There is one comment that i would severely urge to ignore which is that anorexia is confined to middle class young girls, anorexia often hits in periods of life stress and change such as moving house going to university and even having children. it is often about control; as you loose your hair and get poor skin with many eating disorders, its is highly unlikely that its 'just image conscious' girls that develop this disorder; oh and anoreix is on the rise in the male and elderly population
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- 18/12/03 i can only sympathise with you. a best friend of mine used to be anorexic, so i know kind of what youre going thru. she is now, thankfully, ok, but i dont think its something that ever disappears. its important that you have good friends and family around you all the time. if u wanna chat to a stranger about it, then just email me! ahiorns@aol.com. as if a 20yr old overweight student could help u in any way! goodluck with everything tho, and have a cool xmas. andy |
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