Help Online: Eating Disorders
My family thinks im anorexic
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
Help! I think I might becoming anorexic. Everyone I know in my family tells me I am skinny, but I don't feel skinny. I am about 90 pounds and I am five foot 3, which the internet tells me I am just above being underweight and that I am currently at a healthy weight, but I don't want that; I want to be very thin. I don't want to be anorexic because my dad tells me if I become anorexic he will have to sell the house to pay for my treatment. I need help, I want to lose a little bit of weight and learn to be happy with who I am and NOT be anorexic!
Trouble looking in the mirror
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I have a problem with how i look at myself in the mirror. I am not depressed but i think sometimes that if i don't eat a little and i lose a couple of pounds maybe i'll be acceptable to the world. I also get these feeling like i am fat and i hate wearing clothes that show my stomach or my legs. I also think that sometimes i hate myself and when i take pictures i feel as though i'm not pretty or i feel like i am quazmoto from hunchback and that someone should just hide me from the world. I would really like to stop feeling like this and would like to feel pretty. How do i do this?
I just feel fat sometimes
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I've been a bulimic for about three years on and off. Sometimes I get fed up with myself and let myself just eat and be the way I am, but other times I get to the point where I am sick of just about everything in general and I'll purge. It really hurts, because lately I've had blood come up and that's not good... And when I don't want to throw it up I feel like crap and starve myself instead. The longest I've gone without food is four days and then I just HAD to eat something or I felt like I was going to die. I also have this habit where I eat nothing but tums and antacids because it keeps my stomach lining safe from the stomach acid. I asked my mom. She said that a way to get rid of stomach acid is to take tums... She doesn't know that I don't eat and stuff... She just thinks my weight fluctuates. I really hate who I've become and what I put myself through. My mom's skinny and so is the rest of my family. It always makes me feel like such a failure and outcast. I used to cut, but my principal helped me through that and I haven't cut in three months! I'm just a mess sometimes... I mean I weigh 135 and I'm 5'4" so I don't know... I just feel fat sometimes.
Eating is soooo hard
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
Hi, How are you doing tonight? Me i am okay for right now. I am haveing some trouble that i need to talk to you about. I got a question too. How come eating is soooo hard? I dont eat alot, and i am loosing weight fast. I need some help on my eating soon. Please email me back i really need some help soon. i am fadeing away down to a size 12 girls, and i am 15, i was in a size 16 girls before i starting plurging. my counselors are stupid and they critize so i cant talk to them and my parents are mean, at least my dad, he abused me and my mom alot, do you get what i am saying....right. pleas please please email me soon, bye.
My cravings are really bugging me
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I feel like such a screw up.. i do well with my eating throughout the week, eating around 1000 calories a day, low fat, and quite a bit of walking, yet when i get to the weekend i completely let myself go.. i know it isnt a real eating disorder but its not normal is it?! i dont know what to do anymore because i find myself sneaking junk up to my room to scran out on a friday or a saturday evening. ive tried doing other things and ive tried going for grapes rather than a chocolate bar but i just cant do it! i dont know what to do and im worried its going to affect me in the long term yet i cant do anything to stop it. its not as if its just having a takeaway on a friday night.. its having chocolate bars, then some toast, then my dinner, then some biscuits, then some toast, then some ice cream.. its ridiculous i know you will say to not leave things out of my diet within the week but i dont to an extent, i mean if i want a piece of chocolate ill have one you know.. and i cant eat more during the week because i will put on weight! it's really getting me down.
I'm obsessed with food, weight and dieting
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
for almost a year, i've been binge eating. I have a real problem with it. i'm obsessed with food, weight and dieting. Over the past 3 months i've lost ten pounds, and now im almost underweight. i hate being obsessed about food, but now i can't stop.
For 2 years now i've had this problem
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I've been struggling with an eating disorder for about 2 years now. I just want to be normal. I need help and someone to talk to.
I've been bulimic for about 8 months
TEEN QUESTION/PROBLEM:
I've been bulimic for about 8 months, and lately i've begun to starve myself, as if throwing up my food wasn't enough.
But that's not the problem.
The problem is i've been having horrible chest pains for the last three days, and i tell my parents, but they think it's nothing bad at all, but i have a fear that it has to do with not eating or the bulimia in general. Telling my parents seems out of the question, all though i know it's the right thing to do. But, how do you tell the people that think you're perfect that you have an eating disorder?
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