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Originally Posted by Justagir1
I can relate too. In my teens to mid twenties I had quite a hefty eating disorder. Sometimes I would feel so thin - skinny even. Other times I would feel absolutely huge. A waddling obese whale. What I saw in the mirror corresponded with how I felt about myself. I always thought that was weird. How could I look so thin in the morning, but be obese by lunchtime!
So one day I thought I would see if I could 'make' it happen in the mirror as I watched. I was feeling thin, looked in the mirror, and saw thin me. I stared at me and concentrated on trying to feel obese, and sure enough, the me in the mirror started 'morphing' from thin me to obese me. It *really* freaked me out so I didn't try it for long!
Since then Ive had similar experiences, but more along an age spectrum than a size spectrum. I can be fresh faced pure skin me, all the way through to a massively wrinked, grey and sallow skinned old me.
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That's really interesting! I drove home from my T's office, convinced I was looking just like a fat old lady. I was even busting out of my clothes. Then, the next day, in the morning, I woke up and was amazed to see a young version of 'me', the usual 'me'. I couldn't see all the cellulite and 'rolls' I had been worried about. How bizarre.
I'm starting to wonder if it's a symptom of being overly sensitive. Sensitive people feel emotions so deeply. Perhaps a step further is to experience them also, to the point where you absorb the emotions so much that you physically experience it and believe it to be true....
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