[junkyardgod]

My mom knows about my EDNOS.
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i know it's good that someone knows,
and can help me keep it in control (sort of)
but at the same time...
she wants me to gain weight..
:/
i'm not even underweight...

anyway,
she started telling me how my grandmother was anorexic before she had kids.
and i already knew my aunt was anorexic, and has sort-of been recovered for five or so years, after having kids on her own.

do you think it could be like a heriditary disorder?
or that it was just family influences?

[kami2008]

hi junkyardgod welcome to pc

i'm no expert but in my opinion i would say it's down to family influences...even babies pick up on family attitudes to things like eating.

good luck to you beating this ED

For what it is "worth".. I was told my by internist, my family physician.. and my pdoc.. the "scientific" data.. indicates that there is a heridatery component towards the tendency to eating disorders..I didn't "ask" them.. they brought it up.. so for me.. it is 3 independent sources... as I did not "plant" the idea..

so my Mom.. had one all her life..

my sister had one..

I have one..

my nephew.. had one... but was able to recover..

my son.. does not..

[eskielover]

Both my Mother & her mother (my Grandmother) were not fat, but would consider them at the high side of normal for their size. We never even knew what an eating disorder was in the family. My Dad's side of the family came from the Nebraska farming community.....never knew an anorxic farmer......seems food is just a part of the farm.

I was the strange one.....but my Anorixic tendencies have nothing to do with body image.....they are stress related....in that I get stressed & I loose weight no matter what I eat & usually I end up feeling sick, so I don't eat, which makes the weight loss even worse. I remember midterms & finals in college.....I would drop at least 5 lbs if not 10......& my diet was usually a pan of brownies.....a lb bag of M&M's......sacks of potatoe chips.....anything I could stuff into my mouth so I could keep food in without having to cook anything so I wouldn't have to take myself away from studying.

Now stress continues to bother my weight.....4 years ago, I went through a trauma when my Mother was dying of cancer that I lost 25 lbs & ended up anemic & in the hospital with a central line & IV nutrition to survive. Everyone wanted me to go to an eating disorders treatment center after that, but when I called them, none would treat for my reasons. They are so stuck on the body image idea that no one else can be helped......Had to treat the trauma & hopefully the stress will go away.

Heridity isn't the case in my situation, but I would think that possibly there is a tendency for maybe a high motabilism that could keep someone really thin or other problems......along with just the thinking part of it.....most of the time we are what we are around.....our thinking is influenced to either agree with what we are living with or to disagree completely & throw away the thinking.

Anything is possible with mental issues that are so complex.

Debbie