Posted by antigua on February 26, 2004, at 22:38:34
In reply to Not butting in a-tall » antigua, posted by Racer on February 26, 2004, at 16:47:17
I guess the reason I was asking was because if you were speaking from experience, my experiences are so very different from yours.
For me, the issue has never been about a quest for thinness. Furthermore, my experiences with eating disorders are centered on emotional issues that don't have anything to do with food. It is a coping mechanism I learned at a young age to deal w/my emotional problems, to punish myself for the way I feel about myself.
It has nothing to do w/society's idea of beauty, it has to do with how I feel about myself. It is the symptom and not the cause, and it is important for me to work on the issues that underlie what I do to myself. I don't passively accept that I have this problem; I struggle and work with it every day. I think if it was all about food, I'd be able to handle it better.
I just thought your view was an interesting one that was so very different from my own. I think we're both right, for us, we're just different.
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