Its hard for me to answer, because I have aspects of AN, BN and BED. So Im not sure where to put my answer, so for now, I dont think I should vote at all. Im not overweight, but EDs are not about weight so..
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Im choosing "yes but i dont suffer from from other end of the spectrum ED"
Because, realisitically, i dont binge THAT much at the minute, but i have done in the past, and i prob will do in the future so therfore feel i will benefit from the board x
I am currently suffering from bulimia and I just don't think it is necessary to split the boards. I binge and overeat, and I purge and restrict, and I don't want to have to post in 2 boards based on what my behaviours are like at a particular time, because all of those behaviours come from the same feelings.
People are missing the point that it is thefeelings behind the behaviours and not the behaviours themselves that are the problem.
Do you restrict to make yourself feel better, or simply because you're bored?
Wake me up before I change again
Remind me the story that I won't get insane
Tell me why it's always the same
Explain me the reason why I'm so much in pain.
Yes but the feelings aren't necessarily the same, as rockaroni has already pointed out.
I know for me there is little or no control in eating, it's more of a compulsion, therefore making it totally different to the feeling of control many people comment on with Anorexia and Bulimia.
^ I think there is a feeling of loss of control in any eating disorder, especially in an & bn.
The feeling you have when you want to binge, I don't think, is far different from the feeling, the urge you have to binge, when you purge.
I think what Kayl was trying to emphasise was that we're trying to deal with the emotion behind it, but dividing by behaviour - which seems contradictory.
I voted: No, + I suffer from an other end of spectrum ED. I have suffered with it, very badly, in the past, although I'm ok now.
Personally,as mentioned, I don't see the need for them to be separated. *Any* ED involves using food as an emotional tool and recovery is about distancing that emotion from food in order to have a healthy relationship with it. It doesn't matter how much you weigh, or what you do with the food, it's about the feelings associated with the action, and curbing that in the favor of health.
If we're going down the 'feeling intrusive line' should we than not have subforums for anoreixa, bulimia, and all the other EDs? What about if you've crossed the lines? or if you, say, previously suffered with COE and you're now bulimic... could you ask for help if you weren't currenty suffering, but were remembering, or thnking about it? Or would that go in the other forum?
I don't see the need to set lines that are so easily blurred; it only complicates already very difficult illnesses.
I cannot say Im in control. Of what? Frantically counting calories and crying over not knowing what to eat, or what is the right amount. There isnt control in anorexia, its an illusion, that people still believe. And its a misconception.
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Yes but the feelings aren't necessarily the same, as rockaroni has already pointed out.
I know for me there is little or no control in eating, it's more of a compulsion, therefore making it totally different to the feeling of control many people comment on with Anorexia and Bulimia.
I often have little or no control in eating. The only thing that makes me different from a binge-eater at the moment is that I purge. But just because I purge afterwards, it doesn't mean that I don't feel the loss of control and the guilt that most people would associate with a binge.
There may be a multitude of reasons behind disordered eating patterns but they're all similar in that it's using food in response to your emotions.
I've voted as not having an other end of spectrum ED, although aspects of my eating/eating habits are like that. This is extremely difficult for people who haven't been put in a "box" yet :/
But I've voted no.
Edit: No, actually it says I've voted yes :| I didn't pick that.
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