Not sick enough...

[newsuse]

Do you ever feel like a fake, I've admitted I have issues with food and I've asked for help but I'm terrified that any day now they are going to turn round and just laugh at me and ask me what I think I'm doing wasting their time when they could be helping someone with a real food problem.

I know weight and size isn't everything but i'm not unweight in fact im overweight but this thing is taking over my life, taking up more and more of my thoughts and time, I just want it to stop but I'm worried that it won't, that no one will help me till i'm skinny and it's even more entrenched. I feel like to get help I should be sicker I should have a 'real' eating disorder. Does anyone else feel like this? Should I listen to those thoughts and drop out of getting help so someone who really needs it can instead?

 

[wanelad]

Have you considered spending time learning about who you are in Christ and building up your faith within by the renewing of your mind?

The Apostle Paul spoke about the renewing of our mind, I believe this starts to take place as we read and get to know Gods word. Fill your mind with memory verses of Gods love and promises, replace your old negative thoughts and pray that Gods Holy Spirit the helper will help you through this. Stand in faith against the 'problem'. Ephesions ch six and Romans ch eight vs thirty eight to thirty nine

 

[Chaplain David]

Do you ever feel like a fake, I've admitted I have issues with food and I've asked for help but I'm terrified that any day now they are going to turn round and just laugh at me and ask me what I think I'm doing wasting their time when they could be helping someone with a real food problem.

I know weight and size isn't everything but i'm not unweight in fact im overweight but this thing is taking over my life, taking up more and more of my thoughts and time, I just want it to stop but I'm worried that it won't, that no one will help me till i'm skinny and it's even more entrenched. I feel like to get help I should be sicker I should have a 'real' eating disorder. Does anyone else feel like this? Should I listen to those thoughts and drop out of getting help so someone who really needs it can instead?

My opinion is that you discuss your thoughts with your counselor and that you work together to help you. I have had similiar feelings to your own but in my case it was just my head giving me bad information. Good luck with all of this and God bless you.

 

[Obzocky]

Do you ever feel like a fake, I've admitted I have issues with food and I've asked for help but I'm terrified that any day now they are going to turn round and just laugh at me and ask me what I think I'm doing wasting their time when they could be helping someone with a real food problem.

I know weight and size isn't everything but i'm not unweight in fact im overweight but this thing is taking over my life, taking up more and more of my thoughts and time, I just want it to stop but I'm worried that it won't, that no one will help me till i'm skinny and it's even more entrenched. I feel like to get help I should be sicker I should have a 'real' eating disorder. Does anyone else feel like this? Should I listen to those thoughts and drop out of getting help so someone who really needs it can instead?

If this is a recent development then go get help as soon as possible, talk to someone about your issues, explain the fears, the worry, dare I say it the feeling of inadequacy in regards to your disorder. It is best to try and nip these thoughts and behaviours in the bud sooner rather than later, no health care professional in this day and age should turn you away until you fit the weight loss criteria for one particular eating disorder, you may get lumped in with the rest of us EDNOS sufferers (Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified) but you will get help. Don't listen to the thoughts, especially at this moment in time, they are prone to being warped.

 

[jesusfreak1410]

First of all, don't think you're not sick enough. You'll never be "sick enough". Even when I ended up in the hospital I compared myself to everyone else and thought I wasn't sick enough.
Secondly, don't entertain this. Fight it as hard as you can. Paul tells us to flee from temptation [2 Tim 2:22] and James even says Satan will flee from YOU [James 4:7], if you submit to God. Don't submit the the eating disorder. It's a demon. Don't play games with it, it'll suck you in so fast.
Try to remember that by obsessing over food, weight, etc, you are actually creating idols for yourself, and pulling yourself further from God, who is the one who can help you. I know it's hard but the sooner you stop it the better off you'll be. You don't want to be sick enough. Sick enough means 6 feet under.
Here's some verses:
1 Corinthians 6:29-30
Matthew 6:25/Luke 12:22
1 Samuel 16:7

 

[jesusfreak1410]

ugh sorry about the numbers:
second timothy two: twenty-two
james four: seven
first corinthians six:nineteen,twenty
matthew six:twentynine,thirty
luke twelve:twenty-two

 

[blessedmomof5]

I know what you mean by thinking you are a fake, not you but me...so i get that... is it just i wanna be anorexic, and make myself believe i am, or am i not like the rest of them who seem to do it without struggle. crazy thinking for sure.

Just wanted to let you know we /I feel like that often....but i am reminded often that i am, not am i....it always starts at a number, then that is not low enough, then that isn't...soon and so on......
we are here for you, reach out for help.the sooner the better

Do you ever feel like a fake, I've admitted I have issues with food and I've asked for help but I'm terrified that any day now they are going to turn round and just laugh at me and ask me what I think I'm doing wasting their time when they could be helping someone with a real food problem.

I know weight and size isn't everything but i'm not unweight in fact im overweight but this thing is taking over my life, taking up more and more of my thoughts and time, I just want it to stop but I'm worried that it won't, that no one will help me till i'm skinny and it's even more entrenched. I feel like to get help I should be sicker I should have a 'real' eating disorder. Does anyone else feel like this? Should I listen to those thoughts and drop out of getting help so someone who really needs it can instead?