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Jun 30, 2013, 01:55 PM
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Member Since: Nov 2009
Location: D-Land
Posts: 408
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Originally Posted by Moodswing
It does not look like much but it helps immensely. Unless of course you are looking for your health to decline and you want the attention from being sick. I do everything to avoid anyone seeing me sick and weak.
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I'm sorry, but it's this kind of attitude that is keeping you sick. Taking some vitamins orally is NOT going to replenish vitamins lost through purging. Generally multivitamins you buy over the counter are for people who are generally already healthy and are looking to fill in some nutritional gaps. Anything you buy over the counter is designed to satisfy the majority, the 95% of people who fit under the bell curve. Also, anything like that taken orally must be digested and absorbed into the bloodstream. If you're purging regularly, you are in all likelihood purging those vitamins, since it requires time (i.e., several hours) and food in the stomach to be fully digested.
It makes me upset that you would say this to someone who is already struggling. Since the OP already feels bad about going to the hospital for a (I need to stress this part) legitimate health concern, I seriously doubt she has some kind of case of Münchausen Syndrome and is just looking for attention and that people who "allow" their health to deteriorate are attention-seeking.You can keep your misplaced sense of pride because no matter how "weak" someone appears to be to you, it is always harder to live than it is to die, and it requires more strength to be alive than to sleep in a coffin.
Anyway...
Re OP: No, you are absolutely not stupid, nor did you overreact. That's what your ED wants you to think, that you're not worth it--but does your ED ever allow you to be right? You can always do better, you can always do something different... you're not good enough. Isn't that the ED mantra?
I'm sorry that you are struggling so much, it's so hard to pull yourself out of that horrible, disgusting mire... I'll be thinking of you.
 Hugs (if OK)
-whoswho
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