Sorry if I upset anyone with my post; I just don't have that many people on my friends' list to PM directly

EDs are very competitive by their very nature; even online. It's different from other disorders, no one feels a sense of competition like, ooh, I want to drop more acid than her, I want more PTSD than he has, give me more of that depression, I need some sexual abuse to happen to me, ooh, I feel so guilty for not being as manic as he is or for not having as much OCD as she does. It's a weird disorder. You can see a list of foods a person consumes and suddenly have tremendous guilt about the higher calorie or higher fat or higher sugar foods you just ate and immediately try to purge by vomiting, laxatives, diuretics, overexercise. It's like second nature to someone with a history of an ED. A food list like can suddenly make a person resolve to eat nothing else for the day so she's now eaten few calories than the list posted. Continual weight posts do make a person with an ED feel tremendous guilt at maintaining a weight and not losing it and can trigger a relapse just like that.

And I don't mind if people sometimes post weights, BMI, foods eaten (though lists of foods are triggering). It's when it happens again and again and the foods are mostly triggering (and in some cases very easy to purge as there are foods that are much easier to get rid of than others).

IDK, I'm sorry if I'm oversensitive about the issue. I don't mean to be. It's an issue close to my heart.

And I'm just coming down from mania (at least I hope so). Some of my actions are still impulsive and not something I'd normally do. IDK that I normally would have posted ordinarily since posts like that have been showing up on this board for some time and they've always bothered me but I've said nothing about it.

I'll get back to posting topics more relevant to BP now. Sorry about the rant.