Q. I'm pretty sure I have Binge Eating Disorder and I'm overweight as well. I hate being fat but I just can't stop eating! It's like I'll try to eat healthy and have really balanced meals, but when I'm done even though I'm not hungry I still eat and won't stop until I get REALLY full and sick. I know the cause might be emotional things, but I seriously can't change the behaviors of those around me and their mental illnesses. I'm just really tired of all this and I want to be happy so bad, please help?
A. I'm the same and i committed just a few days ago because of some pages on tumblr.(: i'll put the url down there. but keep telling yourself "later", because soon that later will turn into never. it really helps. also, you'll remember how great that binge felt for 30 minutes. but you'll remember how worth it it was to skip it. it really is(:
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how to become a doctor who specializes in eating disorders?
Q. also, what are they called? I've had an eating disorder, and i want to help others who's going through the same struggles that i have. i had two extreme opposite disorders: anorexia and binge eating. do i have to go to any school? or a med school? or what?
A. Eating disorders are handled by different specialists. Usually registered dietitians and/or doctors can diagnose an eating disorder. A clinical psychologist helps them recover. A doctor keeps an eye on their health during recovery with regular check ups. A registered dietitian also helps during recovery by doing meal planning and providing additional emotional support, among other things. The clinical psychologist does most of the disorder management. So, it sounds like you are interested in the doctoring part of it. Different states have different requirements as far as becoming a registered eating disorder specialist. You need to research the requirements for your state.
Youre also gonna wanna at leat graduate from a university with a four-year degree. Secondly, while you are taking the required courses, look into classes that would focus on different therapy methods for mental illness- this could be art therapy, CBT, DBT, etc. It really depends on what your college/university offers. Sometimes, they even have courses that specialise in eating disorders. In order to specialise in EDs, apply for an internship at a treatment facility that deals exclusively with that subject, or volunteer for an organisation like NEDA. This will show potential employers that you understand and can work with eating disordered clients. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Youre also gonna wanna at leat graduate from a university with a four-year degree. Secondly, while you are taking the required courses, look into classes that would focus on different therapy methods for mental illness- this could be art therapy, CBT, DBT, etc. It really depends on what your college/university offers. Sometimes, they even have courses that specialise in eating disorders. In order to specialise in EDs, apply for an internship at a treatment facility that deals exclusively with that subject, or volunteer for an organisation like NEDA. This will show potential employers that you understand and can work with eating disordered clients. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can someone explain eating disorders with detail for me please?
Q. I don't have an eating disorder and I've noticed I don't fully understand them. I know what they are and I'm pretty educated on mental illness and I find eating disorders to be really hard for people to live with and I just want to better understand what people feel with them and what does it feel like for them to eat and what goes through their minds everyday. I just want to understand it more than I already do and I find it to be a really sad illness.
A. It is extremely miserable and a horrible way to live. I've been suffering with anorexia and bulimia for almost five years now (I'm 19). I went to treatment about 4 years ago when I was first diagnosed and stayed in a psych unit for about 5 months, I am 5'1 and had gotten down to 58lbs and came very close to death. It really scared me because I could feel myself slowly dying, but yet I still couldn't bring myself to eat. I got better or at least a little closer to normal and was discharged from the unit. I continued to recover for a good fourish months and then started relapsing. Ever since then I've gone in and out of relapsing. I unfortunately am not able to go back to treatment because it is horribly expensive and my family already had to file bankruptcy from my previous treatment costs years ago. I am currently relapsing and I'm pretty bad off. I feel stuck and hopeless and can't seem to get better. It is exhausting to constantly think about food and how great it would be to be able to eat and not care about it effecting your weight. I haven't gone a day without either starving or eating and throwing up in about a year and I feel like it's going to be the death of me. Many days I wake up with good intentions and tell myself I am going to eat normally today and not let my ed get to me. So I have a meal and it tastes so good because I've deprived myself for so long, that I end up binging and then purging it all. Then I'm back in the same rut. I try to eat somedays instead of starving but it always turns into binging, I can't control myself. I binge and purge basically every night and it sucks. Sometimes I just feel like going from restaurant to restaurant, and ordering all my favorite food to-go and getting a hotel room and just massively binging until I'm satisfied, but I'm never satisfied and then kill myself so I don't have to live with the guilt or purge it all back up. Sad but true. It makes me want to die. I want to get better but I keep trying and can't.
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