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Support thread for ED/SI/etc ... come on in! *poss. trig* (4)

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MyaShane

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April, why would it be her businesss to know all that about you anyway? Just go and have a great time. It's always a bit awkward with the vegetarian thing, but try and make the most of it. Can you maybe call her before and let her know about that? Otherwise with the other stuff does it need to be brought up?
And sorry about those nasty girls in the waiting room at your appointment, that sucks. It's nothing to brag about for sure, how immature and insensitive of them!


Sorry your mom made you feel bad Bec. We do read a whole lot more into situations especially when we're already insecure about ourselves. How can you possibly be obese with everything you do I wonder? :confused:
 
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It's not really her business, I guess, Kerin... it's just that she's going to want to know everything that's new with me, and I'm okay with telling her... I'm just scared that she's going to say something insensitive without intending to do so. Allison's done that in the past, but she has warned us before that she has difficulty thinking before speaking, so we're usually prepped for it. I don't know... it's going to come up, because there's no way on earth to cover the past year and a half without covering some of the mental illness stuff, you know?

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How're you doing, Kerin? and how's the eating been lately? :hug:
 
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Eating has been going ok, I guess. About the same as always. I have taken to eating a little breakfast though even if it’s not a lot. I think I mentioned it before, but I’m in a terrible rut with food and the downside of that is if I don’t find something I really want to eat, I just won’t. And I’m so tired of the options I’ve limited myself to. I was thinking a few weeks ago that I cannot remember, seriously I have no memory of the last time I had a piece of pie, as in eaten a whole piece…by myself. And you know, that just made me really sad. Sadder yet is even knowing that, I still couldn’t sit down and eat one now and that just sucks. Life’s too short and I can’t even enjoy one of the best parts of it. <<sigh>>:sigh:
We’re taking the girls camping this weekend though and I WILL have a s’more!!!
 
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:hug: Bec - You are lovely, and certainly not fat :hug:

Yes, there really MUST be. I just... can't think of anything. I've done all that people have tried, and you know the ice cube thing? Well, I learnt a "nasty" twist on that, which I won't mention here, but that's scared me away from using ice cubes, for fear that I'll do that trick thing.

:hug: I'm sorry that you're still having difficulty with it too. :-( Today is day three forty-two cut-free, and we're going to celebrate me being cut-free on nineteenth July (the day after I've taken my road test! :eek: )........ but I'm going to feel like a fraud since I've not been completely SI-free. Not yet. :sigh:

April - a year without cutting is amazing!!!!!!!!!! It is great that you will celebrate it. (You don't need to feel like a fraud, you really have acheived so much!:clap: )

Ari/April - I'm sorry you're struggling right now with the SI. It's so very hard to overcome a vice. I'll be praying for you both.

How are you Ari - we don't get to hear much about what's happening in your life. :)

Thanks Kerin
I'm sorry you are struggling too:hug:

hmm..lets think... what's been happening in my life...(i get worried about posting too much on here... no one in 'real life' knows about my SI, so i'm worried about anyone i know reading this -- does this make sense or am i being paranoid?! (i've been told i'm being paranoid!))
Anyway...i've been looking for a job, think i might have found one now, that would be good :)
 
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I think you're just being paranoid, Ari. :hug: But I understand your concern. No one in my family/friends knows who I am on here (except for my fiance, whom I met here!), and thankfully they aren't the nosy type. But anyway, sharing some is good. :) Finding a job is lovely! and I will respond to your PM soon, I promise! :swoon: I just have to think up enough interesting things to talk about. ;-)

Kerin, I'm sorry that things are a struggle for you too. EDs are horrible things, and what's worse is that when you think you've got control over your ED, it turns out that you really don't. That gets me every time. What choices have you limited yourself to? (Oh, and if you want good vegetarian recipes I can get quite a few, thanks to my nutritionist!) And btw, thanks for the heads-up on the MorningStar products, they are quite delicious and I love them - so much better than Boca burgers!! I also know what you mean about if you can't find anything you want to eat, then just not eating. That makes complete sense, to anyone really, I think. That's why I've really been working at getting some new recipes together, because I just don't care about eating or drinking anymore, and that could put me in a VERY bad place (not even thinking about the ED aspect of things, just reactions with meds). But I hope that things get easier for you (and I'm sorry for rambling on about myself... :o). *snuggles*

The lunch went okay. I only had a yoghurt with some granola, but she was okay with that - she had a heads-up about my ED so that was good. We talked a lot about mental illness stuff actually; she said that she could get why I'd have an ED and SI issues, cos they are a lot about control and in lessons I was a lot about control in playing, but she really didn't get where the bipolar came into it. Apparently she hasn't seen the bipolar II before, with the less huge mood swings. And she said that her husband (who works on the campus that I go to) had noticed me losing weight, back when my ED was REALLY bad, and had been concerned. I thought that NO ONE had noticed, that it hadn't been noticeable. Now that I know that it had been noticed, it makes me feel even huger now. :-( Which is a horrible feeling. :cry:

But the thing that she said that [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ed me off the most was that Jarrod and I shouldn't get married until I am twenty-five!!! That would mean that he would be thirty-one, and I am sorry, but that's too late. I refuse to wait that long - that's another six years, and I can't do that to him and I can't do that to me. He wanted to be married to be six months ago. I want to be married to him next year. (Neither of which is probable, haha... obviously! :p) So... that was an ARGH thing.

But I'm glad that I went. It was fun, and it looks like I'm going to be getting more violin/piano students come fall this year/spring next year. :) And that is exciting.

How is everyone doing this evening?
 
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Hi Daysoni! How are you? Are you still taking classes? I see you checking in, but you don't say much about how you really are.


Hey Bec. I did too (well Saturday)! What did you see? Went with my friend to see fourteen oh eight (the best I can do with the numbers filter :D ), which was great! I love scary movies!!
Things are ok. I am at the end of my # weeks notice at one job and the start of a new job so I'm pretty much working morning noon and night for one more week. Sometimes i don't think I can remember my name.

My prayers go out to everyone here...
 
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GG, I'm glad that things are going okay. :hug: And the VBS & drama play sound amazing; seeing so many kids get saved must've been amazing as well. :)

Daysoni :hug: Sorry to hear that you're so madly busy with work!! Hopefully it'll let up soon so you can get a breather and remember your own name. ;-) How are things going other than that??

Bec, I hope that the party goes well. Be careful. *snuggles*

Allie, welcome back. :p For a bit, anyway. When are you headed out again??

/me snuggles everyone, and Arnold sends pandalicious hugs to all as well.
 
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