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Have you ever known anyone with an eating disorder?
By RachelleNH
@RachelleNH (1396)
United States
January 7, 2010 11:54am CST
I am taking my teenage daughter to the doctor today to get a second opinion on mine. I think she has "binge eating disorder." I think I have that same personality complex...I can't just take or do a little, I go all out. I have to have some kind of vice..it was once smoking, then drinking..now it's diet cokes.
Well, She's exactly the same way and she has the same sweet tooth that I do. But, I'm concerned about her health-she eats whole bags of chocolate, and drinks a 12 pack of soda in a day or two..This is bad. I've cut back on this stuff around home thinking that would solve it..and if I had anything hidden, she finds it! Or her friends at school will feel sorry for her and "sneak" her some treats.
I started thinking how common this is for girls her age.
So how many of you know or have known someone with an eating disorder?
8 responses
@jahernandezrivas (11287)
• United States
7 Jan 10
Well I know this girl I don't know if you would call it an eating disorder but she eats e3verything she sees and always looking for food all the time.She is rather large but her weight goes up and down and once she looses the wait she gains again by eating so much.
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@jahernandezrivas (11287)
• United States
8 Jan 10
She won't listen to no one. I think she does it because she is lonely.
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@RachelleNH (1396)
• United States
7 Jan 10
yeah, that's got to be one. I researched binge eating disorder and this is what that sounds like to me..although I'm no doctor. My daughter isn't overweight (yet) she was actually seriously underweight. But that could change if she keeps eating the way she has been. I'd get someone she knows to talk to her...maybe a close girlfriend of hers?
@wildcatsthree (289)
• United States
26 Jan 10
It's good you've checked it out if you have suspicions. It is so much more difficult for young girls today than when I was growing up, to look a certain way, to dress a certain way, to be a certain size. The images of movie stars is unattainable for us regular women, yet there they are in our face all the time making us feel inadequate if we let them. I wish you good luck with this.
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@RachelleNH (1396)
• United States
26 Jan 10
Yeah tell me about it :) I am always reading workout mags and I see all these stars in there looking fantasticly buff..and so then I start comparing myself...you know how it goes. What they don't tell you is that those stars have nutrition and personal trainers and exercise like 2 hours a day. Looking good is their life and job. Hollywood sure does mess us all up!
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
7 Jan 10
when i was in grade 12 i was on the edge of having an eating disorder, i used to skip breakfast, sleep all day (i didnt do well in school that year) and got sick a lot because of my lack of eating, but i didnt get any professional help, i just changed myself.
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@Genericbe (1376)
• Philippines
7 Jan 10
I known same eating disorder with one of my close friend. He was also eating too much. It turned him obese already. But, now he was treated already. I cannot imagine him before and now, totally different. IT is good you are warned by that at her early teen age. Where things can be properly treated and immediately given medications than waiting her to be an adolescent. You will find it hard almost if reached that age. Much more complications will await for her.
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@RachelleNH (1396)
• United States
7 Jan 10
It's a sad thing...especially here in America..where junk food rules. You're taught unhealthy things at a very young age and they become lifelong habits. We are the #1 obese nation in the world.
I have been trying so hard to kick my sugar addiction. I'm right where I'm supposed to be weight-wise but I feel like I'm controlled by sugar.
My biggest fear for my daughter is that she'll develop diabetes or something...her dad's side is dominated with it.
@olisaur (1922)
• United States
7 Jan 10
I have struggled with anorexia and binge-eating since I was 14- one of my friends is anorexic and she had a kidney failure just last night and is about to go into surgery today. That nearly happened to me a couple years ago.
It sounds like there is definately something up with your daughter. I suggest talking to her about it first- in a very calm and supportive way (which is VERY important, or else you'll have an outburst for sure). Or you could make an appointmnt with your doctor for her and just go in as a "checkup" and have the doctor ask her about her eating habits.
There are TONS of internal health ailments that can result from eating disorders, you have got to do something before they happen.
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
7 Jan 10
At the moment none that I know off, but I know that some of my friends have had eating disorders. My cousin had it when we went to school, she was really thin but wanted to get thinner. Some other friends were really into different sports and ended up throwing up what they ate so the trainer shouldn't call them fat. Not good, when you're exercising like they did food is even more important :-/
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@missweety (626)
• Latvia
7 Jan 10
Hello! Unfortunately I don't know anyone with eating disorder. I know one girl in my town that is so slim - it's unbelievable!!! But she doesn't have eating disorder, she eats normaly. I think she has born very slim already 
@RachelleNH (1396)
• United States
7 Jan 10
Thanks for your response. Glad of that-That's not unfortunate! :) I know someone like that, she's in her young 20's and has a thyroid problem, she can eat the house down and not gain a lb.!
@lilmuchang (261)
• France
8 Jan 10
Thank God that i'm as normal as anyone can be!! But eating is one of my favourites as well, i just don't get fat. phewww what a relief
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