Anorexia

i don't know how you would classify this eating disorder: i have a tendency to overeat, and then i feel guilty about it. it couldn't be bulimia cause i don't vomit or anything like that. i just feel guilty and wish i haven't eaten that much at all.

I am a recovering anorexic (no one is ever cured really). I think influences of society greatly trigger it, but for me I did not care about looking like a model so much until my mom was so mad at me for being chubby and so happy everytime I lost weight. I also think sometimes it can cover up other issues. I wanted my parents to accept me because I didn't accept myself. After I came out of the closet, my eating disorder basically went away and I haven't had to deal with it again since.

i don't know how you would classify this eating disorder: i have a tendency to overeat, and then i feel guilty about it. it couldn't be bulimia cause i don't vomit or anything like that. i just feel guilty and wish i haven't eaten that much at all.

I am a recovering anorexic for a couple years now. I think it is a horrible disease. I think you need a lot of outside issues for it to result. For me, things that looking back, likely caused it (some things that even my therapist didn't know about): - My mom always told me when I was growing up if other people were fat or if I was. So did my relatives. - I was frustrated for years that I could not make myself like guys, so the relationship part of my life was missing. My friends contribute me coming out to myself as a lesbian as fixing my eating disorder more than therapy did. - People say it's a control thing, and I suppose there is some truth to that. I felt like I couldn't control where I lived, where I went to school, what classes and professors I got, but that wasn't the entire thing. So I guess the short answer is, you need a variety of things to happen to cause this disorder. I'm not even the type of person to give a crap how I look, and I was affected.

No, I don't know anyone with anorexia. But the question I;d like to ask is... Do men ever suffer from anorexia, or is this just a "social" disease (so to speak) for women? I guess what I'm saying is, that, society pressures women so much, they develop psychological disorders, like anorexia. And yet I;ve never heard of a man with that disease, have you?

I have anorexia. I've been bullied for a while..first for wearing short skirts (basically being a s**t but mylot wont let me type that) and now for being "emo" and "goth". I dont have any frinds my own age (12) but im friends with 13 and 14 years old. My most recent boyfriend was 15.. . Because of this vicious bullying i now have the eating disorder that killed my cousin. I'm size zero with a fourteen inch waist. im just over 6 stone which is about 84 pounds or 38 kilos. I never eat and all my friends are worried about me. I hate this. its taking me over. i look like a skeleton wrapped in skin.=[

i don't know how you would classify this eating disorder: i have a tendency to overeat, and then i feel guilty about it. it couldn't be bulimia cause i don't vomit or anything like that. i just feel guilty and wish i haven't eaten that much at all.

often it is caused by physical or emotional abuse in childhood. the media is responsible for promoting a waif body image for females and young girls have this shoved at them from an early age

I have always been overweight and from a very early age I was also told by my parents that I was too fat and needed to lose weight. I became bulimic when I was around 17, but only to stop me putting on too much weight. I was still always slightly overweight, even with the eating disorder. Emotionally I presume it is normally due to the pressures of other peoples' opinions of you.