Amen juliet.
I concur with your thoughts on the ED "support" systems that exist. I used to be in an Eating Disorder
Support group. It was just a breeding ground for competition for the worst
symptoms and to see who would be hospitalized the fastest. It was
sick, it was
wrong. I don't go there anymore.
I no longer am afflicted with the
eating disorder that I
chose. I say I
chose it because nothing
inflicted anything upon me but myself. I didn't really do it
solely to lose weight, although I will admit that was one of my
objectives. I mainly did it because I hated myself and used every possible
device for
self destruction at that time in my life. I didn't know how to deal with
living and I didn't want to live. But
I chose my path because I didn't know any better. People often do the things they do because they don't know any better.
It really
disgusts me when people ask, "Well, what was your lowest weight?" As though that is the only true measure of your
worth as a person in their eyes. It is
wrong and it is
stupid And I am also not
proud of the things I've done.
Yes get some self worth people
I know I am really not the person to say that, seeing as though self worth is something I am working on.. but it is true.
Although no one can give another person
self worth, the world is currently propagating hoards
"victims" ... it is
disgusting.
Also, it's not what has happened to you that makes you who you are, it is what you do about it and how you deal with it.
Until you're dead, it's all life.
that is my take on the situation, for what it's worth.