Did anyone else struggle with an eating disorder as a teen?

[emeraldsaphire]

Back when I was around 15-17 I was obsessed with losing weight. I wasn't fat, but I had "skinny fat" and I wanted it gone. Some of my friends had started to wear two piece swim suits, but I suck with my one piece because I felt fat. One summer I tried to go a week without eating. My father caught on and got me into see a psychologist

The thin standards are just so hard to achieve. I worry for all the kids today who are on socials 24/7. I has social media as a teen too, but I feel like it's so much worse now

Yes, I did

No, I didn't

I didn't, but knew someone who did

[Iron_Man]

Not me but my older cousin did she was on the good morning America TV show and she was the Orange bowl queen in Miami, but she had an obsession for being real skinny and losing weight constantly and she was already very lean and she would run and run at the park and there was even rumors about her throwing up in the bathroom after a meal. I think you gotta do things the right way and get your protein in and balance your food to have the perfect body like a sports illustrated swimsuit issue model girl it’s hard work, but that’s the perfect body to me. If you remember those magazine covers they had them once a year. I don’t know if you’re an American or not if you remember, they’re still out there Sports illustrated magazines

[Bricealan]

@emeraldsaphire When my mother died, I went into depression, and bulimia/anorexia, and could have died from it, but I got married and my wife helped me and took me to counseling and they got me on Anit-depressants, and that fixed my horrible problem... Truly a nightmare for several years.

[emeraldsaphire]

omg that sounds so hard

[Bricealan]

@emeraldsaphire I even toyed with the idea of going to groups, dealing with the same problem and trying to help others out of it

[TsundereMatrix]

I couldn’t really vote on the poll because my doctor never classified it as an eating disorder but I was underweight for my age as a teen. I grew up being a picky eater that got better with time but also had a very sensitive stomach so I had to be careful with what I ate. So because I did eat and didn’t make myself sick over it, my doctor said it can’t be called an eating disorder.

[TsundereMatrix]

Update: Actually I can vote. My cousin had an eating disorder and was hospitalized for it

[VioletHaze]

Yeah, orthorexia. I was underweight and yet somehow convinced myself it was a sign of health. It was less a body issue and more a need for control though. My cousin had orthorexia to the point of hospitalization. It's really sad. And while I do believe social media is worse today, there is also more awareness of it.

[emeraldsaphire]

Sounds like a hard time, and that is fair

[midnightmoon05]

No.
love food too much. I also have a very high metabolism. I was never super bone skinny… or fat.
I have always been proportionate. 5ft. 100 pounds. Now 115 pounds

to me… I like being healthy vs what the society want me to be.

glad you are better now.

[Kaneki05]

I say no because depending on whom you asked I did, do or don't and it has changed several times. But I can be certain it's never once had anything to do feeling fat, though if I was fat I would change stop eating to become not so but that's normal ain't it? Maybe to someone else my response would be extreme I don't know.
I eat once a day anyway with maybe a snack somewhere so I shall never be fat pretty sure.

[Kaneki05]

I did do some binge eating in the past I didn't think it was a big deal but my mother did but she's also a crazy and gaslights 24/7 so make that what you will. Perhaps I just liked a lot of snacks? Or I was under some disorder.
Same goes for when food become gross to me for a whole month out of nowhere but I still ate somewhat. Then it went back to normal.
Then I forgot to eat sometimes but again I don't see much wrong with that.

[Agape93]

Not so much, as much as just not eating a lot. I still don't.

[NathanDavis]

fortunately, no... but I did eat very poorly in my early 20's... so I had to change that completely, for the better

not the same... but still

[Anonymous]

When I was 15 I was bullied for being overweight. Thanks to them i realised and was able to do something about it.

[Twalli]

Not eating or eating very little was actually encouraged because I wrestled in highschool.

[Kelly6]

@emeraldsaphire never had this issue

[jahaims]

No I'm not stupid

[emeraldsaphire]

What a mean thing to say