Your Story *pos trig, contains stats and ref to SI*

[WhereareyouGod?]

Here goes

When i was 7 my troubles started, i was moved over 200miles away from all my friends and was expected to get on with life and make new friends, I am ginger and wear glasses which is not a good combination at that age. I was bullied because of this. there was one day i started scratching my arm when i got really upset and i felt better after. So i started to SI, for 4 years ish i cut without a single person finding out and then it got risky, someone asked what one of my cuts was from. From that day forth i vowed never to cut again. I screwed up a few times but i successfully stayed clean for 2 years.

Two and a half years ago i started cutting again, did some stuff i really shouldn't have done, felt really guilty so cutting seemed to be the solution. I had never learnt how to deal with anger, hurt, pain etc etc. In my family we bottle things up so i did that until i exploded on a cutting spree. Think my record was about 15 cuts in one night. Have been cutting regularly ever since.

Last year i didn't eat a single thing for 2.5 months. I lost one hell of a lot of weight and i became happier. Then i snapped out of it and thought that i wouldn't get away with not eating for very much longer so i "recovered" Last september ana came back, with mia to back her up. I started taking slimming pills and went down from 154lbs to 112 in about 2 months. I am currently on 133 and am planning on loosing more if i can get away with it.

I am a compulsive excerciser that either binges or starves, i don't ever eat normally.

Anyone else fancy sharing their story?

 

[madison1101]

I am a compulsive overeater who has purged in the past, but not much. I weigh 300 pounds, and am 5'9".

I grew up in a very traumatic home where dad was a violent drunk and mom was bipolar. I always ate to comfort myself, and deal with the fear I lived in.

I was molested at 15, and that went on for nine months. It set me up for lots of sexual acting out. I was thin then, and didn't gain my weight till I was pregnant with my first child, at 18. That is when the weight gain and eating disorder really took over. I would sit in my living room and eat entire packages of oreos.

My purging didn't start till I was in my thirties. When I was 32, I started going to Overeaters Anonymous. Then, when I was 43, my husband left me. That is when the eating and weight really flew out of control again.

I have also cut at times, but not in a few years.

I am still struggling.

Madison

 

[aimeemarie]

My story was posted in my intro...but here it is. I was always very skinny until I started college, drinking beer, and gained 20 lbs. I weighed 130 and one day just decided to fast the whole day. I didn't realize I would be able to do it, and I didn't realize what I had started. I lost 20+ lbs in about 1 month or so and I have been the same weight ever since although I am recovered. I just never gained weight back. Makes sense since the beer is what made me gain. I still have problems with overeating and wanting to purge...but I just make sure that I don't overeat. I eat 6 small meals a day, and that is kind of how I recovered.