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<blockquote data-quote="1905" data-source="post: 520868" data-attributes="member: 2668"><p>I go to an IOP 3 times a week with about 20 other eating disordered people. 4 of them are male- ages 17-45, they all have different kinds of problems. Overexercising, obseessing about weight and calories, problems at home, looking for attention because maybe someone else in the family is getting it all, looking for love and thinking the way to do it is with a perfect body, depresion and anxiety, the media- this is a big one- because every magazine has these famous people of all ages with perfect bodies, so they look for that as well. Yes anxiety comes into play, but every person has their own , unique, isues and lives, backround and set of problems. </p><p></p><p>I know I have anxiety, but it's omly around food, and when it's time to eat. If my problem goes away, which it does for a bit, the anxiety goes as well. I was just talking about the males up there, although I can relate to the overexercising. I have no idea why I have this problem, other than I was raised to be very, very skinny and it was praised to work out all evening and it was fine if you ate nothing all day. I will work out too much if I were able to, anxiety comes from-not being able to do that, so anxiety comes form a girl who is unable to "do their thing", maybe their thing is binge and purge, or just purge, or some people also self harm. The anxiety comes when they have to stop- at least for me. But everyone is different. </p><p></p><p>Most people in my program are at a "normal" weight. You can still be anorexic at a normal weight, especially if you started out at 300 pounds and are doing something hurtful to your body- like starve or take pills or purge. We never talk about our specific vices, it's not allowed, only our eating disorder and our feeling in general, like a group therapy thing. Specifics are talked about in private therapy sesions</p><p></p><p>For me, I see these magazines of models on the beach and think they're pretty and I want to look like that, so why is what I do an eating disorder, I just love to be skinny. So? None of it is healthy and all things in moderation, if someone has anxiety- it should be treated- for whatever reason. Which came first- anxiety or eating disorder? Everyone is different, and has different lives fillled with their own "stuff", as do we all. </p><p></p><p>Watch any commercial, it's always a pretty girl, sexy and skinny, that's what's portrayed. Any magazine as well. I feel bad for everyone with an eating disorder, it's insane and we know it as we're doing it, hurting ourselves. People here have shared things with me about their own ED's and I hope I never offended any one of you and I thank you for the support given to me. There is somebody I know I did offend, and I'm sorry. I have seen very sad situations there....one woman set herself on fire, both legs and stomach totally 100% burned, and so young! Some people can't take "not" being able to "do their thing" </p><p></p><p>Another girl, stilll in colege, abused laxatives so much , her colon died and now she has a bag to poop in forever. There is more, but ...it's too sad, it's too much. Get help if you think someone has a problem-people die from this more than any other psychiatric illness. Hound, if you think yourdaughter has a problem, maybe she does, people have dropped dead , their heart gives out, on those machines</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1905, post: 520868, member: 2668"] I go to an IOP 3 times a week with about 20 other eating disordered people. 4 of them are male- ages 17-45, they all have different kinds of problems. Overexercising, obseessing about weight and calories, problems at home, looking for attention because maybe someone else in the family is getting it all, looking for love and thinking the way to do it is with a perfect body, depresion and anxiety, the media- this is a big one- because every magazine has these famous people of all ages with perfect bodies, so they look for that as well. Yes anxiety comes into play, but every person has their own , unique, isues and lives, backround and set of problems. I know I have anxiety, but it's omly around food, and when it's time to eat. If my problem goes away, which it does for a bit, the anxiety goes as well. I was just talking about the males up there, although I can relate to the overexercising. I have no idea why I have this problem, other than I was raised to be very, very skinny and it was praised to work out all evening and it was fine if you ate nothing all day. I will work out too much if I were able to, anxiety comes from-not being able to do that, so anxiety comes form a girl who is unable to "do their thing", maybe their thing is binge and purge, or just purge, or some people also self harm. The anxiety comes when they have to stop- at least for me. But everyone is different. Most people in my program are at a "normal" weight. You can still be anorexic at a normal weight, especially if you started out at 300 pounds and are doing something hurtful to your body- like starve or take pills or purge. We never talk about our specific vices, it's not allowed, only our eating disorder and our feeling in general, like a group therapy thing. Specifics are talked about in private therapy sesions For me, I see these magazines of models on the beach and think they're pretty and I want to look like that, so why is what I do an eating disorder, I just love to be skinny. So? None of it is healthy and all things in moderation, if someone has anxiety- it should be treated- for whatever reason. Which came first- anxiety or eating disorder? Everyone is different, and has different lives fillled with their own "stuff", as do we all. Watch any commercial, it's always a pretty girl, sexy and skinny, that's what's portrayed. Any magazine as well. I feel bad for everyone with an eating disorder, it's insane and we know it as we're doing it, hurting ourselves. People here have shared things with me about their own ED's and I hope I never offended any one of you and I thank you for the support given to me. There is somebody I know I did offend, and I'm sorry. I have seen very sad situations there....one woman set herself on fire, both legs and stomach totally 100% burned, and so young! Some people can't take "not" being able to "do their thing" Another girl, stilll in colege, abused laxatives so much , her colon died and now she has a bag to poop in forever. There is more, but ...it's too sad, it's too much. Get help if you think someone has a problem-people die from this more than any other psychiatric illness. Hound, if you think yourdaughter has a problem, maybe she does, people have dropped dead , their heart gives out, on those machines [/QUOTE]
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