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Hi everyone :) I'm 18 and I leave for college (I'm going to be a freshman) in a few days. I have struggled with disordered eating for most of my life, but was diagnosed with EDNOS in January. I have not recovered, and I don't feel that I am anywhere near that point.
I have a gut-feeling that I'm spiralling again and things are going to get worse once I get to school and live on my own (well, with other girls.. but not family and people looking out for me) so my question here is, does anyone have any experience with this? Have any of you gone through this type of transition and had your eating disorder worsen? I would just really like to hear from you all.
(If this post isn't okay, please feel free to delete!)
I am twenty years old and going into the field of nutrition and kinesiology. Let me give you a background.
From 14 until....well, fuck, recently? I've had eating problems. What was once a huge problem is hardly one now BUT to say it's completely gone would be colorfully foolish. I was messed up. I won't bother with labels or what I had or how bad I had it because I believe those are all just labels that fuck with yours and my head. ("Oh I was worse than her, oh I'm not as bad as her blah de blah blah") Doesn't matter.
Learning in depth about these two subjects have not only deterred my bad eating habits but reinforced and given me optimal stability in my health.
But this past month I've fallen into a bout of not eating, smoking cigarettes, and looking like a piss poor excuse for a young woman.
I feel I'm so bipolar on my eating. One moment, I'm so fucking disgusted with woman (&men?) and how we care so much and the whole idea of starving ourselves. I could ramble for literally hours about how STUPID I find eating disorders. Then weeks start to fade and I eat a little bit less, my anxiety rises, I check my butt out one too many times....and suddenly I can't get the fuck away from the mirror.
So do you think going into the career of health in regards to nutrition and exercise is a smart idea? On one hand, I have so much information in my hands regarding my health I find it impossible not to be rational and healthy. I find it completely liberating to eat normal. I find it horribly interesting how our physiology works in response to what nutrients we consume and how we work our bodies. But on the other hand, I feel that if I'm constantly surrounded by FOOD FOOD FOOD and EXERCISE EXERCISE it has the capabilities to become quite over-whelming.
I have an appointment with a dietician this coming week & am quite aware I'm going to do what I want to do in the end, but was curious to see your answers.
I was wondering if any of you have any knowledge about books concering research/personal stories by or on eating disorders/eating disordered people in the Nordic countries?
Eh, that was a bit awkwardly phrased. The deal is this: I'm writing a thesis for school which counts for 50% of my grade, and one of the topics I'm considering writing about is eating disorders in the Nordic countries. That includes treatment and the differences in treatment between the countries, how the treatment has differed over time, social stigma connected to having an ED, how it is related to other mental illnesses and their prevalence in the different countries and just in general about EDs.
I know it's not the biggest research field, which is why I'm looking to you for possible help. I'm Norwegian, so if you have anything in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or even Icelandic, that would be great (any of these in translated form (to English) is also great, including Finnish). I'm also allowed to have one work from another nationality outside the Nordic countries, so if you have a really good book about EDs you want to reccomend from any country, please do (as long as it is translated into/is natively English).
To be honest, I'm a bit unsure what to do with the whole ordeal and these are just my rough plans for the thesis. If you have any ideas you want to contribute, please do!
I'm not sure if this belongs here so feel free to remove this post.
I'm working in a foster home and the foster parents and I think one of the children may have an eating disorder. She came here in May along with her older sister. Since the first day meal times have been an issue for her. She will eat normally (although much more slowly than the other children) at breakfast, take nearly an hour to eat one small sandwich at lunch, then when it comes to dinner time either pretend to have a sore tummy, take three hours to eat it, or eat it all very quickly then immediately vomit it back up. She does this no matter what size portion or what type of food she is given. She also has a habit of holding food in her mouth for a long time and refusing to swallow it or spit it out - once she kept it there for six hours. After a routine visit to the dentist last week, he told us that the number of cavities and the extent of the erosion on her back teeth are similar to what would be expected in a child with an eating disorder. Looking at various websites she seems to fit the bill for a child at high risk of developing a disorder: she comes from a highly stressful background, would not have gotten a lot of attention, and recently during a phonecall her mother told her older sister not to eat so much because she was getting fat.
Basically what I'm wondering is what we can do to help her. We are bringing her to the doctor tomorrow to rule out any physical reason for her eating habits. Does anyone have any suggestions about what we can do to encourage her to eat normally? Should we consider bringing her to a child psychologist? Are there any communities out there that give support and advice for dealing with children this young suffering from eating disorders?
Any comments would be greatly appreciated. We're all so worried about her - apart from this she seems to have settled in really well and we want to help her in any way we can. Thanks.
EDIT: The visit to the doctor today has more or less ruled out any physical reason for her behaviour, though we are waiting on the results of her blood tests still. She's 18 kg underweight and malnourished, and has managed to lose the seven pounds she initially gained when she came here. We've been given a list of foods that she is not allowed to eat as well as some fortified milk to help her gain weight and take in the vitamins she needs. He has referred her to a child psychologist so we just have to wait for her first visit and take it from there. Thanks to everyone that replied.
soliciting input re: Eating Disorders in Women of Color Hey guys, for my Psych of Women class I'm doing a literature review on Eating Disorders in Women of Color. I'd love to begin the paper with some representative voices; as they say, "the personal is the political" and I believe as much as we sorely need more studies and statistics on non-stereotypical (white, educated, middle/upper socioeconomic status) people with EDs, it's also valuable to hear the experiences of individuals (and perhaps harder to dismiss.)
I was looking through the intro posts of minority_ed and a lot of people mentioned encountering some of the same issues I want to try to tackle in this paper, so if you feel comfortable sharing this kind of personal experience, I'd love to hear your thoughts on being from a racial/ethnic/cultural background, community or population that isn't generally recognized as having EDs. Reactions from family/friends, treatment by medical professionals, your own feelings on having what many see as a "white girl disease" are things that seem to come up a lot, but anything on the topic you can think of really!
This paper will only be read by my professor, it will NOT be published or distributed outside of the class. I'd like to attribute the quotes to first name, age and location (i.e., "Samantha, 22, California" but you can of course use a pseudonym or an initial if you prefer.) Any questions, feel free to ask. I have an ED myself and have been active in LJ communities for years, so I'm not some outsider just looking for guinea pigs on the internet to make my work easier :)
*Obviously, males, genderqueer/trans people and people of different socioeconomic status/education levels get EDs too, but I'm focusing on Women of Color in North America/industrialized countries just because it's supposed to be no more than 8-10 pages, which is pretty damn brief!
x-posted.
study from BYU and a documentary in TV on wednesday There will be a documentary made by Ulrike Bremer aired on TV (in Germany and Swiss): "Dünn bis in den Tod - Meine Freundin, die Magersucht" (Thin till death - My friend, Anorexia): 28.07.2010, 11:00 p.m., ARD (45min). It's available on youtube, too (but without English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch (part 1/6).
Furthermore, I read a short article in "Psychologie Heute": it says that even healthy woman are afraid of getting fat. I searched the article in www and here it is (in English):
"A group of women in a new study seemed unlikely to have body image issues – at least their responses on a tried-and-true psychological screening presented no red flags.
That assessment changed when Brigham Young University researchers used MRI technology to observe what happened in the brain as these women viewed images of complete strangers.
If the stranger happened to be overweight and female, it surprisingly activated in women’s brains an area that processes identity and self-reflection. Men did not show signs of any self-reflection in similar situations.
“These women have no history of eating disorders and project an attitude that they don’t care about body image,” said Mark Allen, a BYU neuroscientist. “Yet under the surface is an anxiety about getting fat and the centrality of body image to self.”
Allen makes his report with grad student Tyler Owens and BYU psychology professor Diane Spangler in the May issue of the psychological journal Personality and Individual Differences.
Spangler and Allen collaborate on a long-term project to improve treatment of eating disorders by tracking progress with brain imaging. When anorexic and bulimic women view an overweight stranger, the brain’s self-reflection center – known as the medial prefrontal cortex – lights up in ways that suggest extreme unhappiness and in some cases, self-loathing.
The motivation for this new study was to establish a point of reference among a control group of women who scored in the healthy range on eating disorder diagnostic tests. Surprisingly, even this control group exhibited what Allen calls “sub-clinical” issues with body image.
Seeing that, Allen and Owens ran the experiments with a group of men for comparison.
“Although these women’s brain activity doesn’t look like full-blown eating disorders, they are much closer to it than men are,” Allen said.
Spangler says women are bombarded with messages that perpetuate the thin ideal, and the barrage changes how they view themselves.
“Many women learn that bodily appearance and thinness constitute what is important about them, and their brain responding reflects that,” Spangler said. “I think it is an unfortunate and false idea to learn about oneself and does put one at greater risk for eating and mood disorders.”
“It’s like the plant in my office,” she continued.“It has the potential to grow in any direction, but actually only grows in the direction of the window – the direction that receives the most reinforcement.”
I think it's a horrible that even healthy women are afraid of getting fat, although they don't seem to notice their fears, because it means that the image of thinness is well established in the mind (of women), but I actually am not surprised about the results. I don't want to blame the media, but it is obvious how glorified that image is - every girl learns "thin is beautiful, fat is ugly" (not to mention that there only these two options are offered: either you are thin OR fat).
Do you think someone can recover without treatment?
I'm a hardcore believer that no one can recover without treatment. I don't care if it's IP or just external therapy but I believe that eating disorders are just a way for people to cope with problems, feelings and life in general. I don't believe that people can recover without psychological help.
How about you? What do you think?
btw, I'm going to start writing in my journal and I would love to have friends LOL I'm 22 years old and I'm in recovery. And I'm going to talk a lot about that... so be prepared. I love reading and commenting, so add me if you want new friends (: (English isn't my mother tongue but I'll try my best!).
I'm Amy. I'll be a freshman in college and am persuing a degree in Behavioral Sciences. I had an eating disorder for nearly all of of high school. It began as a restrictive form of EDNOS, then evolved into full-blown bulimia. Last November through March of this year I took part in a Partial Hospital and Intensive Outpatient program that did a world of difference for me.
These days, I mostly struggle with my anxiety and my mother's recent cancer diagnosis.
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