One of the main emotions girls and women battle when you are in the throes of an eating disorder is a ambivalence. I'm sure you know what that means, but let me give you a definition so we know what we are talking about the same thing.
Ambivalence is when desire are two different things and they want you to pull in opposite directions. For example, your daughter may be optimistic, but also fatalistic thoughts about the confessed she has a problem with eating. This ambivalence keeps her from making decisions about its reality one way or another.
Why Optimism May you ask? Perhaps there are times when your child can not imagine my life the way it is before a meal has become the struggle. Or maybe she can even picture herself a few years down the road doing what he always wanted to do this and run so many miles a week is no longer part of his plan.
As soon as those positive thoughts coming though, fatalistic part of her attack and slike.Dio my daughter wants to see a brief snapshot of your future. The second part of her is afraid or hopeless that nothing is all good can happen to her, because she does not deserve. Other feelings of sadness and worthlessness creep in.
its determination to hunger, exercise or purging weakens when these moments of hope. She was terrified by what sometimes feels weak and how close is it to break its rules;. Or the rules of eating disorders
This is a world of ambivalence in which the daughter spends most of his time. This is a very painful place to be, still stands at the intersection and not being able to take a step one way or another. It feels like it will be stuck on this bridge forever, always looking one way and then another. I could never commit to recovery she needs your help to take a step.
