[mandazzle]

So today I was watching some episodes of the show Intervention. For those of you that aren't familiar with it, it's a documentary show about peoples' addictions. There are a few with eating disorders, but the one really got to me. It was a girl with anorexia and bulimia. I was watching it for a while, and then it happened. The dreaded words came up onto the screen. "Anorexia is the most deadly of all psychological disorders." Then I remembered reading some stuff about it one day, just randomly and now I remember what I read. I don't know when I'm going to die, and I don't know where I'm going to die, but I know how I'm going to die. I will die from my eating disorder. Even if I make a full recovery, the lasting effects of it will still kill me in the end. It's a fact that has left me...paralyzed. Not many people know how they are going to die...and I'd rather not.

Mandy, i am really sorry you have an eating disorder and i am sorry if the show upset you. Anorexia is a deadly eating disorder but i do not believe that the after effects of it will kill you. lots of people get over anorexia and are fine. it is a risk, i wont deny that but i think it is a small risk. plus, try not to think about this babe, you are here now and that is what counts and let's hope you get over your eating disorder and that death of any kind is a long way off in the future for you
xxxx

[mandazzle]

Even if you recover the effects of it will still be the cause of your death, whenever you die.

I too am so sorry the show upset you... watching shows like that are very upsetting...and for that reason - I don't watch them...

I believe that there are so many unknowns about eating disorders - and so... to say that a person even after recovery of an eating disorder will die from the effects of the eating disorder - well science really doesn't know....

It is not a given... it really isn't....

At my age in life.... I have seen science... prove... one thing... then disprove the very thing it proved..a few years later

I have watched new technologies come out that were not available even 5 years ago to treat physical problems.. so whatever is going on with a person physically now... there could be a medical cure/fix for it 2 years down the line...

To look into the future.. and say "I will die from the effects of my eating disorder" - I believe... that I cannot say that...

If.. I look at my son... who is now 23.... at 13 years old he experienced severe problems with his lungs - from a defect... so at 13.. thru... 16 in and out of hospital...for week/ two weeks at a time... then... he was the first to receive a brand new surgery - it was taped for training purposes so others could benefit from the knowledge... and they were able to correct the defect..
What was available when he was 17... was not available at 13.. and at 23.. he is healthy..

My Mom... had reumatic fever when she was 16... this was way back in a day and time when there were no "fixes"... bedrest for a full year - her heart was damaged... severely.... and it was thought that would certainly in her lifetime... to someday be the cause of her death - the effects of the reumatic fever....

But it was not.... she lived a "limited" life that is true... but she had 2 daughters... and her death at 82... was not from the effects of the reumatic fever....it was from something else...

So my hope... with this post... is to give you some new perspective... to give you hope...

I have suffered from anerxioia... for 1 1/2 years....and recovered

I now have a binge/purge.... ED... and am working on my recovery...and I know I will recover from this.. and go on... I will not die from the effects of this ED... it will not win....

[mandazzle]

(((freewill)))
Thanks for giving me hope.

but what if you get hit by a car...

((((manda)))) dont worry so much

[adjuster]

I have ED. I know I am going to die. I know how I am going to die, or at least one of many ways that travel thru my mind. I know that if something else does not kill me first ED will. I have accepted this because it is the lifestyle that I have chosen. Good luck here. Everyone is great.

you guys are so wrong.

you are not God. You have NO idea how you will die.

dont flatter yourself with that knowledge.

you have to learn to enjoy life for what it is and not dwell on that.

you are who you are.

((((hugs))))