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Here you will find articles that address various emotional, physical, behavioral and spiritual symptoms that are often part of the eating disorder experience.
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Slippery Slope Dangers: How to Stay in Eating Disorder Recovery
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Do you recognize the two main influences that propel you to the slippery slope and undermine your eating disorder recovery?
1. Anyone who supports your symptoms rather than your recovery. Be wary and alert when someone encourages you to starve or invites you to join them in a binge.
2. Eating disorders distort your thinking and your perceptions. Under the influence of that distortion you can rationalize and justify eating disorder behaviors. That justification puts you well on the slippery slope to relapse.
Full Bulimia Episode Story in 5 parts: Caution could be Triggering Part 3
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Part 3 Dangerous Sexual Encounter - a variation on the previous option
This story is my attempt to bring understanding to this painful, desperate and all too common experience in the life of a bulimic woman. It could be triggering. I wrote this because articulating the extent of a bulimic episode in detail can help a woman know she can be understood and accepted. If she can feel known in her darkest hours she may experience a new sense of hope and reach for her recovery.
You’re in the car driving. You can’t think of anyone to call. You still are in the state where you want someone to be glad to be with you and match your energy. Where is this man?
Can You Offer Health and Hope to Woman Trapped in Pro Ana?
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Full Bulimia Episode Story in 3 parts: Caution could be Triggering Part 2
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- Category: Symptoms
This story is my attempt to bring understanding to this painful, desperate and all too common experience in the life of a bulimic woman. It could be triggering. But I wrote this because articulating the extent of a bulimic episode in detail can help a woman know she can be understood and accepted. If she can feel known in her darkest hours she may experience a new sense of hope and reach for her recover.
Sexual Encounters as Part of Bulimic Episode
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- Body Image, Self Love, Self Respect and Tenderness
- Portia de Rossi, Anorexia and Secrets
- Anorexia to Obesity and back again: An adult woman's life journey
- Stolen Dreams: Eating Disorders Eclipse Authentic Life Goals and Desires
- Portia's Unbearable Lightness and Ellen's Incredulity
- Recovery and Danger in Ending Relationships
- Healing Power of a Tender Embrace
- Self Care during Relationship Upheaval
- Wishful False Beliefs in Bulimia
- Getting Unstuck
