The first one doesn’t sound like anorexia... she was upset to lose weight, and she said she never wanted to lose weight, and that eating hurt physically.
i wuld say she reminds me of my case..amd i was diagnsoed as anorexic too and i was dying for it quite long..but i was atypical one and sitll i am...motives there are quite different and symptioms also then in typical cases and its also coccnected with other issue like depression or borderline personality or anxiety, biplar so on..i also have combination of more problems then jsut pure ED
It’s not always about weight loss thought it’s a self harm thing or psychological. I get so hungry but I hate the feeling of being full it makes me feel gross tired and out of control.
Why is she saying food hurts? Personally I have anorexia and I love food , despite being terrified of it and I hate it too... but eating hurts mentally but not physically. But I also feel satisfaction and happiness from loosing weight (however I have a part of me that feels fear) but that is what I’m trying to do.
I’ve never heard someone explain it the way the 1st lady did. I wonder if it really hurt or if it was psychologically causing her to think it was hurting. Very interesting.
She may have an underlying leptin imbalance. I don’t have her weird emotional state but I have severe emotional food avoidance that is, I firmly believe, NOT anorexia. I am coming to suspect that I have a leptin imbalance. Hormones may go a long way to explain this.
I have emotionally driven food aversion. If I’m in any sort of emotional distress, I can’t eat. I can’t chew it. I can’t swallow it. I can taste it but my brain doesn’t react to the taste. It could be the thing I love the most. My brain doesn’t recognize that. The more I usually might like it, the more my brain rejects it. It’s revolting. Nobody can diagnose this, though by definition anorexia means “fear of food” in Latin. It’s a fear but I don’t know what causes it. It’s gone on for so long, I’ve come to dislike certain foods simply because I tried to eat them during a flare up of whatever this is. Compounding with this is a digestive disorder they can’t diagnose, but that I firmly believe is a result of years of non-voluntary restriction. What she has is either real anorexia or not exactly anorexia. I never considered myself anorexic. I did enjoy the weight loss at times, but that’s not why I do it. It wasn’t a driver of this. I can’t help it. I can’t physically eat unless I feel very calm and good. I never could, since I was a toddler. It’s taken a toll on my health. I’m healthy in that I run every day, my food choices, when I make them, are very good. I don’t have a disordered sense of nutrition. But my digestive system has become very sensitive after a lifetime of this. I have a peptic ulcer and suffer from diarrhea frequently. Full feels physically painful. My grandmother died of this mysterious thing. So naturally I wish I could manage it. It is totally resistant to all therapy. If I force myself to eat when I can’t, I choke. And I’d rather take my chances with the mystery than choke to death acutely. The only cure as I can see is to be happy all the time. Or at least most of the time. Thankfully my 4 year old shows no signs of this. And I was well into it by 4. So had my grandmother been apparently. My daughter isn’t like me. She’s not dyspeptic. She’s not fussy. She’s not an emotional eater or an emotional avoider. She loves wholesome food and loves eating time. Thank god. The search for answers continues. I don’t have the strange thinking this woman does.. but I get why it must have been confusing. I wonder if she’s still alive
For anyone suffering this similar bizarre thing, you can now get high caloric drinks that aren’t thick and can go down. I’ve heard this rumor at least. I’m looking into this now and I’ve talked to my doctors about such a solution. But I’m afraid that knowing it’s food would cause me to choke. I realize that’s totally psychosomatic. But like I say, it’s fundamentally resistant to treatment. I also cram vitamins, an unhealthy practice. But it sorts the immediate problem of keeping things moving. If they’re small, chewable and NOT GUMMIES then I can manage a vitamin a day regardless. Flintstones are life. ❤️
Also, that's not what it means. "Anorexia" means "a state of having a lack of desire of". "Nervosa" is a Latin word, and it means "nervous", or "fearful".
Sounds like untreated ingrained anxiety, to me. I experienced a week of this, as you describe it. I lost 10 lbs because I just could not bring myself to eat every time I tried, and I was experiencing extreme, unending anxiety for about 10 days or so. I’m sorry you’ve lived with it for so long.
Whoa, I feel a weird confusion regarding food too. Im 54 and always struggled with weight. For almost 20 years I was in control and in great shape but the last 10, 15 years...im totally baffled by food. I eat regular size meals and my stomach hurts so bad for hours but otherwise im hungry. Its a real problem too.
I was put in a psych ward when I was 14 and the second day I was there a boy, who was in there for self-harm, threw himself through a ground level bay window (why they had glass and not plastic windows will always hunt me) in order to get the glass to cut his body. They had to taser him because they couldn’t get close enough to inject him with a sedative as he was trying to stab himself and anyone else who got close. Mental illness will make people do unthinkable things, to themselves and to other people. Not all wards sedate people because people can’t heal the problems they have if they can’t feel what is wrong.
The first one doesn’t sound like anorexia... she was upset to lose weight, and she said she never wanted to lose weight, and that eating hurt physically.
I cant diagnose but sounds like arfid how see describes the sensations and so
The first one sounds like ARFID, I'm not sure. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.💕
i wuld say she reminds me of my case..amd i was diagnsoed as anorexic too and i was dying for it quite long..but i was atypical one and sitll i am...motives there are quite different and symptioms also then in typical cases and its also coccnected with other issue like depression or borderline personality or anxiety, biplar so on..i also have combination of more problems then jsut pure ED
It’s not always about weight loss thought it’s a self harm thing or psychological. I get so hungry but I hate the feeling of being full it makes me feel gross tired and out of control.
Why is she saying food hurts? Personally I have anorexia and I love food , despite being terrified of it and I hate it too... but eating hurts mentally but not physically. But I also feel satisfaction and happiness from loosing weight (however I have a part of me that feels fear) but that is what I’m trying to do.
Maybe she means reintroducing food into her body hurt or something but I'm not sure
And I hope you get better I know it's not that simple cause I have it but plsss get better
People experience anorexia differently.
I’ve never heard someone explain it the way the 1st lady did. I wonder if it really hurt or if it was psychologically causing her to think it was hurting. Very interesting.
She may have an underlying leptin imbalance. I don’t have her weird emotional state but I have severe emotional food avoidance that is, I firmly believe, NOT anorexia. I am coming to suspect that I have a leptin imbalance. Hormones may go a long way to explain this.
I have emotionally driven food aversion. If I’m in any sort of emotional distress, I can’t eat. I can’t chew it. I can’t swallow it. I can taste it but my brain doesn’t react to the taste. It could be the thing I love the most. My brain doesn’t recognize that. The more I usually might like it, the more my brain rejects it. It’s revolting.
Nobody can diagnose this, though by definition anorexia means “fear of food” in Latin. It’s a fear but I don’t know what causes it. It’s gone on for so long, I’ve come to dislike certain foods simply because I tried to eat them during a flare up of whatever this is. Compounding with this is a digestive disorder they can’t diagnose, but that I firmly believe is a result of years of non-voluntary restriction.
What she has is either real anorexia or not exactly anorexia. I never considered myself anorexic. I did enjoy the weight loss at times, but that’s not why I do it. It wasn’t a driver of this. I can’t help it. I can’t physically eat unless I feel very calm and good. I never could, since I was a toddler. It’s taken a toll on my health. I’m healthy in that I run every day, my food choices, when I make them, are very good. I don’t have a disordered sense of nutrition. But my digestive system has become very sensitive after a lifetime of this. I have a peptic ulcer and suffer from diarrhea frequently. Full feels physically painful. My grandmother died of this mysterious thing. So naturally I wish I could manage it. It is totally resistant to all therapy. If I force myself to eat when I can’t, I choke. And I’d rather take my chances with the mystery than choke to death acutely. The only cure as I can see is to be happy all the time. Or at least most of the time.
Thankfully my 4 year old shows no signs of this. And I was well into it by 4. So had my grandmother been apparently. My daughter isn’t like me. She’s not dyspeptic. She’s not fussy. She’s not an emotional eater or an emotional avoider. She loves wholesome food and loves eating time. Thank god.
The search for answers continues. I don’t have the strange thinking this woman does.. but I get why it must have been confusing. I wonder if she’s still alive
For anyone suffering this similar bizarre thing, you can now get high caloric drinks that aren’t thick and can go down. I’ve heard this rumor at least. I’m looking into this now and I’ve talked to my doctors about such a solution. But I’m afraid that knowing it’s food would cause me to choke.
I realize that’s totally psychosomatic. But like I say, it’s fundamentally resistant to treatment.
I also cram vitamins, an unhealthy practice. But it sorts the immediate problem of keeping things moving. If they’re small, chewable and NOT GUMMIES then I can manage a vitamin a day regardless. Flintstones are life. ❤️
Greek. Not Latin, lol. I always find it funny when people think specific Greek words have a Latin origin.
Also, that's not what it means. "Anorexia" means "a state of having a lack of desire of". "Nervosa" is a Latin word, and it means "nervous", or "fearful".
Sounds like untreated ingrained anxiety, to me. I experienced a week of this, as you describe it. I lost 10 lbs because I just could not bring myself to eat every time I tried, and I was experiencing extreme, unending anxiety for about 10 days or so. I’m sorry you’ve lived with it for so long.
Very interesting, thank you.
Whoa, I feel a weird confusion regarding food too. Im 54 and always struggled with weight. For almost 20 years I was in control and in great shape but the last 10, 15 years...im totally baffled by food. I eat regular size meals and my stomach hurts so bad for hours but otherwise im hungry. Its a real problem too.
"In a locked ward with violent patients" What patients were violent? So many people think about the psych ward like that.
My mother also works in a psych ward and many, many of the patients are violent. It’s a very dangerous place to work in
Extremely violent at times.
I was put in a psych ward when I was 14 and the second day I was there a boy, who was in there for self-harm, threw himself through a ground level bay window (why they had glass and not plastic windows will always hunt me) in order to get the glass to cut his body. They had to taser him because they couldn’t get close enough to inject him with a sedative as he was trying to stab himself and anyone else who got close. Mental illness will make people do unthinkable things, to themselves and to other people. Not all wards sedate people because people can’t heal the problems they have if they can’t feel what is wrong.