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Aug 17, 2014, 08:07 PM
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I read some stuff I shouldn't have read. ED stuff popped up in a novel after I was well into it, and I kept on reading, but it just got more and more triggering. This happened twice this weekend.
Every time I read ED stuff, I end up wishing I was that ED character, particularly if the ED character is a teenager. I wish I had had my ED much worse than hers at a younger age than hers. If I had, others would have understood that I was suffering. They wouldn't have treated me like I was an unworthy person. I would have become more disciplined and have earned the right to feel good about myself. If I had been sicker when I was much younger, I wouldn't feel like such a crappy failure today. |
 buttrfli42481, MoxieDoxie, Travelinglady, waggiedog
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Aug 18, 2014, 07:29 PM
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(((winterglen))) Sounds like you need to stop reading as soon as you get to the ED topic!
 
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Aug 19, 2014, 11:33 AM
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Right! What because we are older we should know better and therefore we can make it just stop? People today still think that Bulimics just want to eat whatever they want and be skinny. They do not know or care to know what actually drives the behavior.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors. |
| winterglen
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Sep 04, 2014, 02:23 PM
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The comment was to stop READING & stop TRIGGERING oneself into the thinking. It's not like the trigger came from some external source that there was no control over....it's important to take the responsibility for self-care to stop doing the things that trigger the negative behavior...we ALL know that the behavior is not something that can just be stopped but there are enough external triggers we don't have control over we need to be resoonsible & stop those we do have control of
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| HealingTimes, waggiedog, winterglen
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Sep 04, 2014, 06:36 PM
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Hello there. Yes, I totally agree with what some of us basically said .............................. we have to try and take responsibility for ourselves. As ''Eskie'' said, I hope I got this right: it's difficult not to be involved or swayed by outside influences, ones which we have no control over, let alone the triggering ones that we ARE totally able to control. Control in this case means removing the ''guilty party'', which in this case started with a book and the ED subjects within it. HUGS. xxxxxxxxxxxx
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| eskielover, winterglen
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#6
Sep 30, 2014, 04:54 PM
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No matter what, you can't go back. You're fine as you are. Just stop triggering yourself. It never turns out well.
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