HAD/HAS EATING DISORDERS!?

okay.. for all of you you had/ has an eating disorder, i would really like to learn more about them. anorexia bulimia you know. but could all of you with eating disorders post your story here? and if or how you stopped? and also: for all of you that have email/aol/aim/msn messenger would you PLEASE post all of your screen names here? because i would like to talk to you back and forth too so i can ask you questions. soo PLEASE leave your story, and your screen name for any of the above. THANKS!!

Hey Tasha... well yeah, I've been through the whole eating disorder thing. My story is pretty recent. I'm just a very depressed person, even though I may never show it. I have this obsession with being perfect, like having perfect friends, trying to live a perfect life... but my life is anything but perfect. I've never been overweight. I've always been the tiny, skinny girl. My group of friends, known to be the "popular" ones, always call me the tiny one... but still, I picked up both anorexia and bulimia. My obsession with being perfect lead to my eating disorders. My view on food: anything I eat well make me gain weight, and that was the last thing I wanted. I was paranoid... I really thought food was evil. So, to keep myself in good shape, I stopped eating. I would go weeks by just drinking water, and having the occassional carrot or celery. I got to a point where I was almost 85 pounds. But still, people thought I had a great body so I was convinced that anorexia was amazing. After a while, I became incredibly weak. I was just skin and bones. My friend became very concerned and talked to mom and said that she was worried about me. My mom, suprisingly, seemed she cared and she convinced me to go to rehab. I recovered quickly, but my idea of food being evil was still in my head, so I picked up bulimia. I threw up EVERYTHING I ate. It got pretty bad, like I began throwing up blood sometimes. I actually convinced myself that bulimia isn't the way to live, so I stopped myself from throwing up, so I'm almost completely over bulimia.

Though I am better now, I still have traces of anorexia and bulimia. I still go days without having eaten anything, and then I'll eat a full meal and I'll occassionaly throw it up. I'm still trying to make myself completely get over it. I have put on weight though, which is better, because I actually look healthy now. I'm 5'2" and 105 lbs. It's better compared to being 85 lbs.

My private contact is available in my profile... feel free to e-mail me.

~ Tina

hey ive been self injuring since 6th grade and i recently got caught so i cant anymore. i couldnt take it so i became bulimic. i told one of my friends and she is to. its just one way i make myself feel better...my email is ashley_hershey@hotmail.com if u wanna talk

I'm not the one that has a eating disorder. It's my best friend. And well the reason she started was because she had a problem with self-confidence. Now I'm gonna tell u....she's NOT fat...she's in the group where all the girls are popular, pretty, smart, talented blah blah. And well she stopped once last year for a whole year. But recently she's started again. But this time it's more like a mixture of low self-esteem and stress. Like a lot of times...with her b/f....she has some problems...so thts wen she u knoe. and well. It's tht her b/f cheated on her once and almost broke up with her. and she really loves him....so she didn't break up. but she thought she wasn't good enough for him. and she threw up more and more. idk if she's considered anorexic...but she only skips lunch at skool...but thts cuz the food's nasty...

oh and I'm not anorexic...but a lot of the time...i don't eat. like I never have breakfast. I leave home w/o eating and tell my mom i'll eat at skool or on my way...but i never do. it's nothing to do with my weight cuz i'm fine. like i'm really skinny...as in i have an ok body weight-wise at least. it's just that i dnt have the appetite to eat a lot of the times. And some days i go without eating the whole day....like i'll have something to drink...but thats it....idk...it's weird. cuz a lot of the time i eat like CRAZY...which is why i dnt consider myself anorexic. but yea...i always miss at least one meal...but like i said before...it's cause i'm not hungry...