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Yvainee
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Hello and let me introduce myself,
my name is Yvaine, I'm 23 and I joined MFP as a way to keep an eye on my calorie intake and exercise. I have been suffering from an ED since I was 14 (currently in a restrictive phase again, but can be anything - from purging to over-exercising). My doctor diagnosed me with EDNOS and I recently started seeing a therapist. However, the focus in the therapy lies on other issues such as panik attacks, social anxiety and depression.
I was very excited to find eating disorder groups on here and hope to find people, how understand and don't judge.
Wishing you all the best!
my name is Yvaine, I'm 23 and I joined MFP as a way to keep an eye on my calorie intake and exercise. I have been suffering from an ED since I was 14 (currently in a restrictive phase again, but can be anything - from purging to over-exercising). My doctor diagnosed me with EDNOS and I recently started seeing a therapist. However, the focus in the therapy lies on other issues such as panik attacks, social anxiety and depression.
I was very excited to find eating disorder groups on here and hope to find people, how understand and don't judge.
Wishing you all the best!
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Hi, Yvaine (how do you pronounce that? it's lovely!)
I keep typing and deleting things because they all sound ridiculous and forced so forgive me if I just give up on attaining ~tonal perfection and go ahead and sound like a loser instead:
I'm an EDNOS-type myself as well, with a decade of it being a toss-up what symptoms I'm using at any given time. Random advice: don't fall into the trap of "working on your depression" and ignoring the fact that you're using unhealthy coping mechanisms to manage it. My depression and anxiety are often at their mildest when my ED symptoms are at their worst, which leads to crisis and horribleness just as easily as if your ED was mild but your depression bad.
Idk, all ~mental health advice seems super obvious, but sometimes hearing someone else say it can be useful. Anyway, hello and welcome!0 -
Hello SmallestGoal,
thank you for the welcome. My name is pronounced "eevain"
Don't worry, you don't sound like a loser. I know where you're coming from. I have noticed myself that the ED gives me something to focus on and the worse the ED is, the better the depressions are. The therapy is not really voluntary, my boyfriend begged me to get help so I'm kinda doing it for him. We'll see if it's for better or worse. At the moment I just feel really uncomfortable with myself and want to get back on track with my food to cope with all the other stuff going on.0 -
Hi Yvainee (that really is a love name )
I'm 24 and have been on MFP for quite some time but switched accounts in November. I also have EDNOS (restricting subtype) and have been struggling through recovery on my own. I'm currently 27 weeks pregnant and it's very hard but I don't have long left, thank goodness
I really hope your therapy helps you and they address all of the issues that come into play :flowerforyou: 0 -
Hi, I'm 25, I've been eating disordered at least since 16 (started purging then). I've been all over the map in the disorders but predominately bulimic. I'm currently just ED-NOS (and have been just ED-NOS for some time now, at least a year). Lately I've been restricting again. Now I just have so much anxiety and guilt over eating too much. I've also recently stopped eating wheat for health reasons and am pescatarian so it's made it hard to like, figure out what to eat a lot of the time and I have too much anxiety to really figure it out or put effort into it. I don't know. It's nice to find other people on here with similar issues (who aren't teenagers lol).0
