Experiences with

Anorexia

There aren't many posts from premenopausal people on this board, or people with anorexia, so if anyone wants to say hi...? :-)

By Ashita Dadlani "What is anorexia? Anorexia is often labeled as an eating disorder, a need to control weight, or a mental battle. In my experience, it’s about validating the belief that “I am not good enough.”

By Ashita Dadlani "What is anorexia? Anorexia is often labeled as an eating disorder, a need to control weight, or a mental battle. In my experience, it’s about validating the belief that “I am not good enough.”

By Ashita Dadlani "What is anorexia? Anorexia is often labeled as an eating disorder, a need to control weight, or a mental battle. In my experience, it’s about validating the belief that “I am not good enough.”

That's where anorexia came in. Anorexia is a distraction. It fills your brain up and makes itself the problem. A familiar and predictable problem to me, and one with the illusion of control and agency. When engaged with anorexia I wasn't engaged with what was about to happen and that felt safer.

I had a diagnosis of anorexia in my teens but all recovered now. My dad has Addison’s disease, I don’t know if that’s relevant.

i had been recovered from anorexia since 2016 but since i had surgery for an infection in my back and have lost weight, i cant stop focusing on calories, loosing weight, and exercising. im not underweight infact im probably abit over, i feel like ana is creeping back in, but i dont feel i can as for

Even struggled with anorexia to find a way to forget the pain. I can't say I've totally recovered but at least my mindset is healthier. I hate how people are always talking about me these days and how they say the most hurtful and untrue things.

As a result of that, my anorexia nervosa got worse. I didn't eat because I was constantly afraid and anxious that he would be unfaithful. The 4 years I was with him, I lost so much weight that you could see the balls of my collarbones, shoulders and hips.

I have a long history of anorexia, which has been under control for quite a few years, but recently in the lead up to our first embryo transfer I've found the ED voice getting very loud and requiring a lot of management.

I suspect I have OCD as I had anorexia and bulemia as a child/adolescent and then false memories for twelve years as an adult. The false memories were horrendous...I thought/believed I murdered someone at age four while in a satanic occult group.

i went from 8st after our first child to 14st in a month which then lead me to go back to my anorexia and bulimia days. Then after being forced by my husband and his family i got steralised when he refused to get the snip. This has been the worst thing that happened to my body of the 3.

I had anorexia pretty badly in my 20s and my bone density still isn't the greatest, so I've avoided progesterone-based treatments.

Hello, I wanted to ask if anyone in this community experienced persistent menstrual dysfunction following recovery from anorexia? For some background, I had anorexia from ages 11 - 18. I reached the menarche (had my first period) at 17, following weight restoration.

It sucks because I'm recovering from anorexia, well trying. It's a work in progress. But mom gets SSI and goes to her bills and all. They get food stamps, but enough to last a full month. I'm not sure what to do. I'm hungry and I leave what few things we have for them .

I had anorexia for a decade and for the past year+ I’ve been recovered and reached a healthy weight as before I was very underweight, and now I find that I could stand to lose a few pounds in a healthy manner and just try to eat healthier in general as well as be more active.

Charlie is diagnosed with anorexia and OCD. The therapist says: "for some people an eating disorder is about body image, but from my perspective your eating disorder is connected to obsessions and compulsions: eating the right thing at the right time and under the right circumstances".

I have had anorexia for 27 yrs now. I'm 39 female.

But I am terrified because I've never been on hormone replacement therapy and I am a person who has had anorexia for over 25 years so weight gain is the thing that I fear more than anything in the world. Can anyone tell me did HRT cause you to gain weight and if so how much?

I was hoping somebody here has recovered from anorexia and done it on their own without having been in a treatment center or having a nutritionist tell them how to gain weight.