Eating disorder support?

hopelesswreck

Are there any eating disorder groups on MFP? Not pro-ED groups, but not ‘recovery’ groups. I don’t want to post things triggering to people in recovery but am not steadily in a state of recovery. I want to be able to talk/post about things I’m experiencing with other people in a sort of ‘limbo’ stage without triggering others. Not Pro - ED.

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SCoil123

I haven’t seen any on here but if you go to the EDA website they have online Eating Disorders Anonymous meetings daily

Cbean08

Please seek professional help. I was diagnosed with an eating disorder a few years ago and it has been absolute hell dealing with it. Without residential in patient, intensive out patient and then a fully staffed support team, I wouldn't be alive. You might be able to find some solace in connecting with other online, but I strongly believe that professional help is needed to overcome an eating disorder. Insurance has covered my past 7 years of treatment. See what your insurance company can do. You can find more support on Neda.com. Best of luck.

collectingblues

I don't know of any active recovery groups here, and the sort of "let me get this disordered thought out of my head" threads tend to not be welcomed here.

PM me if you want the website where I go to get that stuff out of my head.

SCoil123

If you need someone to message please feel free to request me. In and out of recovery for bulimia and restrict/binge cycling for the past 20 years. It’s hard. About once a year I find myself slipping into old behaviors and have to consciously get back on track but it can be done

JorrunFulhelm

Hi there! Officially diagnosed with OSFED a few months ago. If you find a group I'd love to be a part of it, I haven't seen any here. If you haven't been to see a professional I HIGHLY recommend it.

MostlyWater

No. We aren't professionals here. ED can't be handled by the layperson.

eleonora1809

People here aren’t very supportive towards ED sufferers/ survivors. Basically they will told you to get professional help because MFP is not the place to share your ED.

I have struggle with food & weight loss. I’m also bullimic. Talking with people from MFP about my struggle only triggers my ED because very few gave emotional support, so I decided to delete my post relating that topic.

Shannongr29

hopelesswreck wrote: »

Are there any eating disorder groups on MFP? Not pro-ED groups, but not ‘recovery’ groups. I don’t want to post things triggering to people in recovery but am not steadily in a state of recovery. I want to be able to talk/post about things I’m experiencing with other people in a sort of ‘limbo’ stage without triggering others. Not Pro - ED.

SCoil123 wrote: »

If you need someone to message please feel free to request me. In and out of recovery for bulimia and restrict/binge cycling for the past 20 years. It’s hard. About once a year I find myself slipping into old behaviors and have to consciously get back on track but it can be done

I’ve suffered with one on and off for almost 20 years as well. Feel free to message me

SoulOfRusalka

I'm not sure of any. You can message me, though.

BarneyRubbleMD

I belong to the following MFP Group since I have a diagnosed Binge Eating Disorder. There are people posting to this group almost daily.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/726-binge-eating-support-group

misskarne

eleonora1809 wrote: »

People here aren’t very supportive towards ED sufferers/ survivors. Basically they will told you to get professional help because MFP is not the place to share your ED.

I have struggle with food & weight loss. I’m also bullimic. Talking with people from MFP about my struggle only triggers my ED because very few gave emotional support, so I decided to delete my post relating that topic.

Telling them to get professional help IS supportive, because nobody here is adequately trained to help you. Then there are the tools who don't read threads and come into someone's thread where they're talking about an ED and give them "advice" that is the worst possible stuff they can give. (I've literally seen someone tell an anorexic who was eating 700 cal a day that they needed to eat less.)

fitoverfortymom

misskarne wrote: »

eleonora1809 wrote: »

People here aren’t very supportive towards ED sufferers/ survivors. Basically they will told you to get professional help because MFP is not the place to share your ED.

I have struggle with food & weight loss. I’m also bullimic. Talking with people from MFP about my struggle only triggers my ED because very few gave emotional support, so I decided to delete my post relating that topic.

Telling them to get professional help IS supportive, because nobody here is adequately trained to help you. Then there are the tools who don't read threads and come into someone's thread where they're talking about an ED and give them "advice" that is the worst possible stuff they can give. (I've literally seen someone tell an anorexic who was eating 700 cal a day that they needed to eat less.)

To add on to this, I have no doubt that there are ED sufferers who are overweight, but the first course of treatment is professional guidance. As the previous poster mentioned, sometimes people will chime in on a "why am I not losing weight" thread without realizing that the person asking really has an ED and wanted validation to restrict.

I'm just a mom who helped her daughter recover from an ED and am by no means a professional, but I am incredibly sympathetic, though, and know it's not an easy battle to win. There's a fine line between an "ED support thread/friends" and an "ED encouragement thread/friends" and your ED certainly knows the difference and will want to seek out one over the other.

SCoil123

misskarne wrote: »

eleonora1809 wrote: »

People here aren’t very supportive towards ED sufferers/ survivors. Basically they will told you to get professional help because MFP is not the place to share your ED.

I have struggle with food & weight loss. I’m also bullimic. Talking with people from MFP about my struggle only triggers my ED because very few gave emotional support, so I decided to delete my post relating that topic.

Telling them to get professional help IS supportive, because nobody here is adequately trained to help you. )

I can only speak for my own recovery. But I found connecting with others who were in recovery and successfully getting healthy again more helpful that treatment. That’s not saying that counseling didn’t help at all. It did. It helped me uncover my own motivation and triggers which I really needed to do to get well. Connecting with others in recovery though gave me a hope I would have never gotten from “professionals”. I needed to see others overcoming it in order to believe that I could too. No amount of knowledge was ever going to help me recover without that hope.

SCoil123

fitoverfortymom wrote: »

misskarne wrote: »

eleonora1809 wrote: »

People here aren’t very supportive towards ED sufferers/ survivors. Basically they will told you to get professional help because MFP is not the place to share your ED.

I have struggle with food & weight loss. I’m also bullimic. Talking with people from MFP about my struggle only triggers my ED because very few gave emotional support, so I decided to delete my post relating that topic.

Telling them to get professional help IS supportive, because nobody here is adequately trained to help you. Then there are the tools who don't read threads and come into someone's thread where they're talking about an ED and give them "advice" that is the worst possible stuff they can give. (I've literally seen someone tell an anorexic who was eating 700 cal a day that they needed to eat less.)

To add on to this, I have no doubt that there are ED sufferers who are overweight, but the first course of treatment is professional guidance. As the previous poster mentioned, sometimes people will chime in on a "why am I not losing weight" thread without realizing that the person asking really has an ED and wanted validation to restrict.

I'm just a mom who helped her daughter recover from an ED and am by no means a professional, but I am incredibly sympathetic, though, and know it's not an easy battle to win. There's a fine line between an "ED support thread/friends" and an "ED encouragement thread/friends" and your ED certainly knows the difference and will want to seek out one over the other.

Many bulimics are a normal weight or overweight. Most binge eaters are overweight. For those of us with these disorders learning to lose or maintain our weight without switching disorders to become anorexic is a challenge.

jenna_nicolo

SCoil123 wrote: »

Many bulimics are a normal weight or overweight. Most binge eaters are overweight. For those of us with these disorders learning to lose or maintain our weight without switching disorders to become anorexic is a challenge.

This^ This is definitely my greatest challenge. I've been bulimic since around 14 (now 23) and there was only a single year where I was significantly underweight in that time frame. The rest of the time I've been solidly inside the normal BMI range, and even 5lbs overweight in Fall 2017 when I was working to stop purging again but had not yet controlled my binging.

I joined this site in an attempt to learn healthy, sustainable, normal eating habits - surprisingly enough it's not really the logging that helps me analyze my behaviors and make more positive changes, it's interacting and following everyone else using the site. Their insight and experiences come from a different perspective than the therapists, doctors, nutritionists I've seen. This isn't to say you shouldn't recommend professional help when it's obviously needed, but I truly appreciate the forum aspect on MFP and the discussions all of us share when we're able to in a healthy manner.

eleonora1809

misskarne wrote: »

eleonora1809 wrote: »

People here aren’t very supportive towards ED sufferers/ survivors. Basically they will told you to get professional help because MFP is not the place to share your ED.

I have struggle with food & weight loss. I’m also bullimic. Talking with people from MFP about my struggle only triggers my ED because very few gave emotional support, so I decided to delete my post relating that topic.

Telling them to get professional help IS supportive, because nobody here is adequately trained to help you. Then there are the tools who don't read threads and come into someone's thread where they're talking about an ED and give them "advice" that is the worst possible stuff they can give. (I've literally seen someone tell an anorexic who was eating 700 cal a day that they needed to eat less.)

I’m sure this community exists for discussion and motivational support. If people with ED (like me) came here in hope to find support from strangers, only to found them saying stuff like “get professional help” then what’s the point.

The reason why I share my ED here is because I can’t get professional help and I know I’m not alone.
I shared my ED & weight loss struggle in a discussion before, people told me to stop complaining instead and that MFP is not the place to share my ED struggle.
My point is, if you can’t give any helpful advice, your kindness & emotional support is enough to help me get through the day.