Warning, this is a rant. I will have my soap time, then move on quietly into my day. Thank you.
Recently, “Snookie,” from, “Jersey Shore,” said she fought an eating disorder in high school. She was dismissed in a rag because the doctor said a, “a real eating disorder requires years of therapy to overcome. It never gets better without it.” BULL! I was an overweight bulimic for YEARS! I stopped after lifestyle changes and things that boosted my self confidence (climbing a rock wall, for example).
Yes, an eating disorder is serious business. Many young people do need medical intervention, but some people can help themselves and some people do. While therapists can help you see your life with clarity, and should be seen for severe eating disorders, depression, and suicidal tendencies, dismissing a human’s ability to self adapt without the … See More aide of someone from the outside, is as irresponsible as telling someone to not get help, if they are suicidal. Actually, get in your car, a plane, a bus and get to that person. They mean it, if they say it. It’s not a game. While therapy has helped me, it’s also not a be all and end all. Some people can learn to find their own inner peace through church, yoga, self love rituals (you fake it, you will make it) and family. I don’t want to knock therapy. I wish my dad would stop drinking, but he needs to want to and he needs to get help. My push for my weight loss and keeping it off was my surgery and my kids. No therapy to take it off at all. Again, I’m not knocking it. I’m just saying it’s cruel to point out that someone ate one salad a day for two years and didn’t really have an eating disorder because they didn’t get therapy. Some things do change, as we grow. Now, I see a therapist and I am learning to deal with my issues, but I have friends and loved ones who want to help, too. It’s all a puzzle and *you* own the pieces to put it together. No therapist can cure you. You cure yourself with the help of a therapist. Rant off. Please feel free to tell me I’m wrong, in a civil manner. Because I’d love to debate this one
