Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 69 Location: Melbourne, Australia
How Far Can We Push Ourselves to the Edge Before We Fall? Posted: 07-05-05 07:43am
I'm just writing to everyone because i'm
about to cry. There was this beautiful,
bright and intelligent girl who came to
this forum a while ago, we started to chat
over pm and I found out more about her,
like all of us she was in a dark
place...Not wanting to live unless she
could be thin or happy. A couple of weeks
ago she stopped writing, I was really
worried so I sent her heaps or messages, a
few minutes ago I got a message from her
mother. Aparently she overdoesed on meds
and nearly died, her brother found her
just in time (like by minutes), shes now
in a eating disorder clinic. I dont know
what I expect anyone to think or do or
say, I just wanted to vent and say how can
we ever get out of this? The scary thing
is, that I know how she was feeling, i've
come close to the edge many times. It
makes me wonder whether I could ever try
to die...And maybe I could, and that
scares me. I dont wanna die...I just
wanna be thin and happy, but I get so down
about being thin and pretty that the other
priorities slip away. I'm sorry, I guess
i'm just upset...Life is so fickle, how
come if humans are so intelligent can
there be so much self inflicted hurt, I
mean we hurt other people enough-why do we
wanna do this to our selves? I know i'm
babbling, I just wanted to let you all
know how close we can come to pushing our
selves off the edge...And sometimes we
slip. Love and peace to everyone here! I
hope we dont suffer for too much longer,
some people seem to be happy, so should
we. Xoxo a very distressed damsel
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irishamethyst
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 75 Location: Ireland
Posted: 07-19-05 03:22am
I'm sorry to hear about your friend, but
it is important to realise that we have a
choice what route to take. It's not
easy, in fact, far from it. I'm
currently in what I call active recovery,
and have been for a little over the year,
though have been in recovery for quite a
number of years. Unfortunately (as was
the case with me) a lot of people tend to
hit rock bottom before they take the rains
backs into their own hands. What rock
bottom is for one person is going to be
different for another. No one really
knows what route someone is going to take.
I hope your friend is ok, and that there
is no long term damage to her organs etc.
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