Joined: 18 Nov 2003 Posts: 16 Location: Valley of the Sun
Needing Help Posted: 11-23-03 18:25pm
Hi, when I was 12 I developed and eating
disorder due to stress at school and the
custody battle that was going on between
my mom and dad. I got well and things in
the house were better until now. My mom
was diagnosed with bi-polar earlier this
year and last week she overdosed on
sleeping pills and has been at a
behavioral center since. Since then I
have felt the same feelings of ana like I
did before. I find it harder not only
because I love the control I have with it,
but because I also have ocd and find my
mind telling me that I have to do so much
of something before I can eat. Like I
have to run 2 miles, do 50 sits ups, etc
before I am aloud to eat or something will
happen to my sisters. I just don't know
what to do about these feelings. The last
time I battled with anorexia I hurt my
family so badly, but it felt so good to
have the control. I just need some help
figuring things out.
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qt3
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 264
Re: Needing Help Posted: 11-24-03 21:30pm
volleyball pryncez
wrote:
hi, when I was 12 I
developed and eating disorder due to
stress at school and the custody battle
that was going on between my mom and dad.
I got well and things in the house were
better until now. My mom was diagnosed
with bi-polar earlier this year and last
week she overdosed on sleeping pills and
has been at a behavioral center since.
Since then I have felt the same feelings
of ana like I did before. I find it
harder not only because I love the control
I have with it, but because I also have
ocd and find my mind telling me that I
have to do so much of something before I
can eat. Like I have to run 2 miles, do
50 sits ups, etc before I am aloud to eat
or something will happen to my sisters.
I just don't know what to do about these
feelings. The last time I battled with
anorexia I hurt my family so badly, but it
felt so good to have the control. I just
need some help figuring things
out.
the answer for me was cognitive behavioral
therapy (cbt). I was on meds for many
years before I found cbt and it cured me
and got me off meds in a remarkably short
period of time. Cbt is not like other
talk therapy. It's all about using the
tools to learn to think more clearly and
accurately about things and once you do
your anxiety, panic and depression will
miraculously begin to lift before your
eyes. It's used successfully to treat ocd
and eating disorders as well and the tools
you learn are incredible at reducing your
stress level. My favorite starter book on
cbt is "been there, done that? Do this!
By sam obitz (www.Tao3.Com) based on what
I have seen with the people I know who
used cbt the more dedicated you are to the
tools the faster and deeper the recovery
regardless of how bad their problems were
when they got started. It was inspiring
to see the people that dove in head first
and how fast they started seeing results
to those of us like me that were more
skeptical and less dedicated to using the
tools in the beginning. Like anything in
life the more you put in the more you get
out of cbt. That's why I think group
settings can be especially effective with
cbt because you can see the people that
are working the hardest to get well making
the most progress and it becomes
infectious.
Hope this is helpful
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Posted: 12-14-03 05:46am
My daughter developed what was diagnosed
as ana earlier this year & I have some
ocd & control issues & she
certainly has control issues as well, but,
the diagnosis was wrong & the medical
intervention only made things worse &
from what I saw it's hardly a surprise to
know that virtually everyone else being
treated like her were on their 3rd &
4th admissions with no real change.
So I started phoning & found a dr
(psychiatrist, only he acts like a real
person who sees her a sa real person
& who can think outside the box &
considers alternate treatments/solutions
because he thinks we are all
different!!!!)
here are some of the things he's doing
with her & which have given us back
our daughter & she says that she can
recognise when she's doing something which
is negative & she is able to see for
herself that she's more & more able to
cope & deal without needing to be in
control (much less constant control) etc.
She's also regaining weight & muscle
tone.
Eat foods high in tryptophan which helps
balance serotonin levels in your brain
(pumpkin seeds, bananas, yoghurt, most
nuts, turkey etc etc) & take a gentle
(yes gentle) 30 minute walk every morning
(works even in overcast weather) between 6
& 7 am as at this time the suns rays
work on some chemical in our brains to
reduce stress.
If you reduce stress you may find that
like her your ana/ocd/control behaviours
reduce too.
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