Honey, get help now. I'm saying that as someone who didn't get help until I was twice your age, and I"ll say it again: get help now.
Yes, that sounds quite like having an eating disorder. Now how do you get help?
First things first, the help is about helping you with a mental illness which manifests itself physically. You're not getting help in getting fat, no matter how much it may feel that way at first. You're getting help with the mental illness that has the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. So start now to remind yourself that you're getting help with general life and health issues, not weight per se.
Are you in school? Are you covered by health insurance? If you're in school, go to the student health center. Otherwise, if you have insurance go see your GP. Say that you're concerned about having disordered eating, and ask for a referral. Then go to the appointment that you make.
Help is out there, and it's helpful. Go see what you find out, and let us know.
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle in essay on Sir Walter Scott
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