What would you ask someone with an eating disorder?
If you could ask someone with an eating disorder (recovered or not) anything, what would it be?
I’m pretty sure most of us have questions we’d love to have answered. So why not use this blog as a forum to hear the truth?
Please write your questions in the comments section (or, if you’d rather, send them to me privately using the email address along the sidebar.)
Questions can be about anything under the sun – sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll (I couldn’t resist), bingeing, purging, proanas, promias, laxative abuse, body hair, bad breath, over exercising… you name it. No topic is off limits — just be respectful and sincere.
Thank you.
FYI: I’ll be choosing many of your questions for the basis of future Breaking the Mirror posts.
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3 opinions for What would you ask someone with an eating disorder?
aregularreader
Dec 2, 2008 at 5:26 am
1. Do anorexics secretly (or not so secretly) really think less of bulimics? Or binge eaters?
And obviously I know this question is not going to get answered…nor would the answer to anything to benefit me as I really do understand it’s not something you can just “get” but…
I’ve always wanted to know as someone who’s struggled with bulimia for six years…”How on earth do people with anorexia do it?”
I guess this stems partly from wanting to cross the line…rising above the need for nutrition and my body just won’t let me. I can go three or four days without a bite to eat and then I just start binging (and purging) in a really out-of-control manner. I absolutely hate it. And although I KNOW restricting is what leads me into this vicious cycle…it’s really hard to stop when I know it IS possible to go without good (the proof is anorexia) and there’s so much fear and anxiety around food when I’m NOT binging that I can rarely sit down and actually eat something like a “normal” person.
S
Dec 3, 2008 at 10:40 pm
How many anorexics, in the process of recovering, have cycled through the entire range of eating disorders?
emily
Dec 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm
what do you blame for the start of your disorder, or the instance that caused the disorder to become greater than yourself?
i’m asking this because i don’t have the answer for myself after five and a half years of dealing with this.
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