Things People Who Have/Had Anorexia Wish You Knew
If this is part of your life story, please share your insights! What would you like the rest of us to learn? What should we know about people in this community? How would you like people to interact with you? Should people ask questions? What’s the best way for people to learn about this? Do you have any resources (books, movies, YT videos, etc) that will give us greater understanding and empathy and kindness toward people who experience the same things you do?
If you’re not on this journey, we welcome you to listen, learn, and ask respectful, good-faith questions! Open-ended questions are highly encouraged, as they give people the space to share their unique experiences in their own words. While this is a safe space to learn about things you’ve never experienced, please remember to be sensitive, and avoid sharing harmful stereotypes or debating someone's lived reality. If you have a question, ask it with empathy. If someone gently corrects you, please be open to learning. Let's have a gentle, fun, friendly conversation where we support one another, because it takes all sorts to make a world!
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@jesusredeemedme2425 Looking forward to this thread! ❤️
It feels so shameful to eat food. It really hurts when people assume it's an issue that men don't deal with. I always feel fat no matter how skinny I look. It's really scary and can be hard to not let it control your life
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We are not vain. I've never judged anyone based on their size. For me it was more about having control over myself when I had never felt autonomy before, or authority over my own body. Childhood trauma and centuries of oppressive conditioning. I always felt shame for taking up any space, physical or otherwise. All the judgment is fully turned inward, I assure you. This was never, and will never be, about vanity or competition. In this illness, literally everyone else is beautiful; I am the ugly one.
Oh i actually had that because of a hormonal disorder in puberty, i was 12 years old and weighted 35kg (77 pounds) and was 1.42m tall (4'6 feet), i couldn't grow on my own so i went through a lot of medication and supplements, it wasn't the best stage of my life but i kinda liked to see my own growth, being underweight was a bit of a slump because i wasn't the strongest, or fastest, or resistant, basically i had a poor condition that i tried to work over time, but yeah, on my own limits, that had both a positive/negative on myself, positive because i could balance myself physically, and negative because i learned to just be rough on myself all the time, it was rough, but it can be overcome with more than just medication, i think mental therapy can avoid having a poor self-image and body dismorphia, it isn't impossible but it's a long and hard journey that requires support and the right tools.