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  so I'm gonna get straight to the point here. I have looked up ways to "become anorexic". I know you can't just "become it", and that it's a mental healthy disease. I just want to be skinnier and whenever I think of losing weight, I think of "becoming" anorexic.
  When i go on the sites to "learn how", no one encourages; instead, my answers are that I need help and it's a disease, you can't become anorexic, etc.
  
  Do I need help? Do i have some sort of eating/health disorder?
  
  Oh, and for the record, I've never been and probably never will be anorexic-food is a stress reliever, and I have no self-control.
  
  Please, I beg that you don't bash on me. I have enough stress in my life...I don't need it. I know it's wrong, too. That's why I am admitting it all.

  StandInTheRain~ You bleed just to know you're alive started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply | permalink )

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  Jeannie S 

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  You don't have anorexia, nor does it sound like you will become anorexic. Many of us turn to food for comfort in the midst of stress. A true anorexic starves themselves, pretends to eat and just disguises their eating with shoving it around on their plate, etc. they seem to be obsessed with their body, and no matter how thin they are, any little area of fat tissue, they think makes them "fat". It IS a disease because they can literally become so chemically imbalanced that they die, and sometimes when it is longstanding it is very hard to treat. Traits of anorexics also seem to be perfectionism, wanting to measure up to some imagined standard.
  I would never "bash" on you. We all do things for our own reasons, but if you have a lot of stress, and are ashamed of "no self-control", I suggest that you look for some help from someone who can help you look more objectively at your life, and help you decide what actions you want to take, to relieve some of the stress. You are loved of God, and you are important to the world, so don't give up on yourself!

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  Starlet  

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  Great response, Jeannie!

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  Jeannie S 

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  Thanks! I'm not a mental health worker, but work in a professional library for a community mental health center, and learn enough, along with my previous RN training, to give reassurance. Or warning, as the case may be :[)

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