Stalkers and Eating Disorders Certainly not everyone with bulimia acts out their disease as I described. But many do match the scenario in tmy last two posts and many are worse. At least in the descriptions I gave, the woman got home. I wrote the full bulimic episode description to make clear that bulimia covers a territory far more vast than eating behaviors.
Doors can open for you if you knock or simply turn the handle.
Here you can find articles that may answer your questions and support you in your personal recovery work.
You'll also find a series of inspirations and affirmation that may help you stay on your healing path.
Please remember, helping yourself does not mean going it alone. Helping yourself means discovering what what you can do to support your own recovery. That includes how to recognize opportunity and reach out for what supports your health and personal development.
When you help yourself you are looking to people as well as books, websites and classes, who are in a position to offer you genuine recovery help on your journey to healing.
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My self help eating disorder recovery book is in it's almost final form at Conari Publishers. It is due to come out Spring of 2011.
How lovely to see this research today: Binge-Eating Treatment Found Cost-Effective Using Self Help Book.
In my training as a psychotherapist I was taught not to tell patients what to do. After all, they are leading their lives based on their values, loves, goals, wishes and desires not mine. Yet, as a seasoned clinical with rich experience as a professional and rich hard won experience as a former bulimic, I recognize psychological and behavioral mine fields when I see them.
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Instead of denying yourself food or using food to binge and purge, what if you cherished food and grew it to eat, share and contribute to global healing? Could planting a tomato or zucchini really help save our lives and the world? Lots of people think so. I know my backyard orange tree provides a lot of joy, beauty and nourishment to my friends and family. And my home grown cucumbers last year were a miracle to behold and delicious to eat. Now I'm seriously asking myself, could my oranges and cucumbers and yours help heal or prevent an eating disorder?
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Experience of Crisis: If you have an eating disorder, then you experience a crisis when you perceive, real or not, that the presence of a constant, reliable, important and nourishing something or someone is leaving you.
Your feeling of being adrift and alone in a vast emptiness with nothing to hold on to and where no one can reach you or even know where you are is unbearable. Regardless of what eating disorder you have, you will feel the urge to do what works for you during periods of real or perceived loss.
Reaction: Depending on the severity of your disorder and the severity of the loss, real or remembered, you may binge on food or exercise or go into starvation mode. You may cut or edge toward suicide. You can fall into a binge-purge episode stretching across a range of once in one day to 15 or more episodes per day for many days.
If you have some degree of recovery, you may find yourself saying to a friend or your psychotherapist:
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Coping with the pain and turmoil in a life governed by an eating disorder can tempt you into making to do lists. You want positive change in your life. Why not just make a list of what you want to change, and follow your own directions in an orderly manner? A "To Do" list can seem like your solution. Can it work, or is it a set up for failure?