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I've never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, mostly because I don't want to be told I'm too heavy and I don't want another diagnosis, but I've been dealing with disordered eating symptoms since I was 14 and I'm 21 now. I stopped for a few years when I messed up my gallbladder, but from age 19 to now the symptoms have gotten so much worse. I don't know what to do, I want help but I don't, and I feel like every doctor will turn me down because the doctors at the psychiatric hospital I went to said I weighed too much and I ate enough to not need the replacement shakes I was wanting, but the only reason I asked for them was because every time I ate something my nervousness made it too hard to keep down, so I wanted a shake like I use at home sometimes because my throat hurt so bad, and they just thought I was faking. I just want some sort of help, maybe? But, I also don't, and I feel like the only way to get help is to be crazy ill because of my symptoms for anyone to validate me...
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Bulimia Nervosa
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There is such a stigma around EDs. They expect everyone to look a certain way. I had bulimia (laxative abuse) and because of my height and build, my weight was fine” … so then it’s like oh ok. I’m not messed up enough. I can’t even have an ED right ?! A few years later my anorexia took the lead and I was so thin I had a bobble head. My hair was thinning and dry. But… once again. I was on target for BMI. I read a lot about how especially with bulimia , it’s common to not be underweight .. our bodies try to hold onto whatever fat stores we have. Weight stigma is such BS. so many things are ignored bc oh “just lose weight” blahblah. The best thing to do is get a support system even if it’s on the internet. I have found things on insta and TikTok talking about this and it really helps to be validated.
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@ReadieFreddie People like you who say you've delt with this without being super skinny when you started really helps with validation for me. I'm in that period where I restrict so I don't have to purge and I'm really worrying that's going to turn into a bad habit. It's just really nice to know even if I don't have a support system that understands (I have a support system but they have no idea how to deal with it) there are still people out there like me, so thank you for that 🥺
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