Argh!!

[PureGrace]

I have a major pet peeve with people making nasty comments about eating disorders! Just the other day, we were driving down the road and saw a very thin woman. My mom goes "Gross she's too thin. Shes like anorexic. nasty!" and my brother yelled "Ew gross!". It made me want to knock the both of them out.

My friends make nasty comments about it frequently too (they dont know about my anorexia...but come to think about it...they would make them anyway if they knew. They're just that great. wow different topic. anyway...)it really gets on my nerves. No one seems to understand the struggle that an eating disorder is! Its not just a simple choice...its more an addiction and so, so hard to break.

I'm having such a hard week with it, so I'm even extra edgy about it.

Kate

 

[Music4Hym777]

I know exactly what you mean, yes, now that I am in recovery I can see how being too skinny can appear gross, but I will never say it outloud. People dont always understand and so they dont know how to react. This usually follows with making light of something deadly serious! Which is not a good thing and thus why it is also one of my petpeeves.

 

[madison1101]

I really understand what you are talking about. My exhusband used to make all sorts of comments about eating disorders, mental illness, and stuff like that. My family suffers from a lot of mental illnesses, and I have the binge eating disorder and alcoholism in my repertoire of addictions. We would have all out wars.

The stupid thing was, I am obese. He would tell me I have to lose weight. I would go to OA, come home and tell him I was giving up sugar, as it is a trigger for me to binge. The next day, he would eat ice cream and tell me to taste how good it is and put the spoon in front of my face. I wanted to hit him with the whole carton of ice cream. Then he would deny he was undermining me.

Sorry to ramble about that. Anyway, my best suggestion is to work on your self-esteem, and learn about your eating disorder and how to recover from it. Once you do that, you can better educate the ignorants in your world of the real problem. Also, realize that it has only been in the last 30 years or so that the mental health gurus have come to see that eating disorders are a psychiatric issue. And even then, binge eating disorder is not listed at an eating disorder by itself. Just anorexia and bulimia are true eating disorder diagnoses.

 

[oneandlonely]

Yeah my parents are that way. We will be watching tv, and a super skinny girl will come on and mom will be all "EWW! She is anorexic! that is gross! I just don't understand how girl would ever thing that is pretty!" I hate hearing things like that. I mean my parnets don't know that I stuggle with eating problems, but I still hate heard those things.

My parnent are aways talking about weight anyways tho. They are always dieting, and all they ever really buy is diet foods. and I don't know but that doesn't help me, because it makes me think about my weight more.

I am sorry that you are having a hard week take care of yourself love

Bethany

 

[luv4godremains]

I hate it too, it makes me feel sick every time anyone says anything like that, I mean, why critices and judge someone for something you don't understand, either way it's wrong, but I mean, why not TRY to understand!?