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I need help. I am feeling so defeated. I have not posted in so long. I just got out of inpatient a month ago. I did well at home for a month now I relapsed. I am just tired I probably wasn’t ready to leave but I have Medicare and well can’t go back again yet and never residential. I need help I think I would benefit from an NG tube just never done it outpatient. I am not underweight yet but will be there soon. I just spiral quick now my treatment team says it’s my age at 36 and years of ED at this point. I physically fall apart sooner it’s just I feel hopeless.
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Potential signs of eating disorders
Eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED) most commonly emerge during adolescence or young adulthood and disproportionately impact females. These illnesses often linger, so it is not rare for them to persist into a woman’s reproductive years. When they do, they can impact the health of the baby as well as the mother, so it is critical to understand the interactions between pregnancy and an eating disorder.
Research on the incidence of eating disorders during pregnancy (and in general) is limited. In addition to a relative lack of studies, the results of the studies we do have may be skewed by the reluctance of many women who are pregnant to admit they have an eating disorder. Some estimates indicate that—if subthreshold disorders are included—eating disorders may affect between 5 to 8 percent of women during pregnancy.
One study conducted in Norway found that one out of 21 women had an eating disorder while pregnant, with binge eating disorder being the most prevalent.
Women with eating disorders often have irregular or missed periods. Women with these symptoms often assume they cannot get pregnant. This belief is not true–while women with active anorexia nervosa have more difficulty conceiving and seem to have lower rates of pregnancy, pregnancies do occur.
The rate of unintended pregnancies is, in fact, higher in women with anorexia nervosa—perhaps due to the belief that contraception is unnecessary.
Research on the fertility of women with eating disorders is mixed. Two small studies found the rate of eating disorders in women attending fertility clinics to be approximately 10 percent or higher, which is much higher than the rates of eating disorders among women in the population.
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Unsure #PTSD #Anorexia #treatmentresitantdepression #Anxiety
I posted a week or so ago. I was given some good suggestions and am looking into them. My therapist and I are working on a plan to cover all areas. The eating disorder speaks very loudly. I know my therapist doesn’t specialize in eating disorders. I trust her and can’t start over telling someone else the story. I don’t know what to do, the black hole is consuming me. I live in ND and every week for the past 3 or 4 weeks we have had a blizzard. I’m sick of driving on bad roads. It would be so easy to “lose control “ on the ice. Even if that really happened, those people very few people wouldn’t believe it was an accident. I could go on forever about my mom who has Alzheimer’s and dementia and my worthless siblings - that could take pages. Thanks for listening. Hanging on by a thread.
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Unsure #PTSD #Anorexia #treatmentresitantdepression #Anxiety
I posted a week or so ago. I was given some good suggestions and am looking into them. My therapist and I are working on a plan to cover all areas. The eating disorder speaks very loudly. I know my therapist doesn’t specialize in eating disorders. I trust her and can’t start over telling someone else the story. I don’t know what to do, the black hole is consuming me. I live in ND and every week for the past 3 or 4 weeks we have had a blizzard. I’m sick of driving on bad roads. It would be so easy to “lose control “ on the ice. Even if that really happened, those people very few people wouldn’t believe it was an accident. I could go on forever about my mom who has Alzheimer’s and dementia and my worthless siblings - that could take pages. Thanks for listening. Hanging on by a thread.
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Red flags for anorexia nervosa
Patients will report symptoms such as amenorrhea, cold intolerance, constipation , extremity edema, fatigue, and irritability. They may describe restrictive behaviors related to food like calorie counting or portion control, and purging methods, for example, self-induced vomiting or use of diuretics or laxatives. Many exercise compulsively for extended periods of time.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) recognises the following criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa
-a restriction of caloric intake
-low body weight relative to age, sex and health
-unjustified fear of weight gain
-body dysmorphia
Along with these, numerous signs may be observed and they include - but are not limited to - the following:
-amenorrhoea (from suppression of the gonadal axis)
-dental caries (from purging)
-orthostatic hypotension or tachycardia
-resting bradycardia
-purpurae
Two sub-types of anorexia nervosa have been recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
-Restricting subtype is characterized by an individual with anorexia nervosa who has not regularly taken part in bingeing or purging behaviors during the current episode.
-Bingeing and purging behaviors include the use of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, and self-induced vomiting to restrict weight gain. Binge-eating-purging subtype is characterized by an individual who has regularly taken part in binge-eating or purging behaviors in the current episode of anorexia nervosa.
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This is the problem
There is little understanding of anorexia and come on here and 3 posts! 2 from a year ago and 1 six months ago! #whatiswrongwiththis
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Hi, my name is Emz and I am here because I am recovering from addiction, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa I suffer with extreme anxiety, depression and complex PTSD. looking for people to relate to with any of these disorders. thank you
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Living in a home with so many invisible illnesses.
In my home we have a shopping list of invisible illnesses, and they are nearly impossible to manage all at once.
The Ringleader (me) suffers from some sort of metabolic disorder that is going undiagnosed, an ongoing epileptic disorder that is going undiagnosed, C-PTSD, PMDD, Social Anxiety, Bi-Polar, Borderline Personality Disorder, Asthma, Migraines, joint pain, bulging disc's in the back, Auditory Processing Disorder, and Executive Function Disorder
The Circus Bear (my husband) has C-PTSD, DID, Anxiety, undiagnosed arthritic joint pain in knees, right elbow, and back, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and withdraws from society as a response to Suicidal ideation, Post-Traumatic Arthritis.
The Unicorn (daughter) has C-PTSD, fear of abandonment, Generalized Anxiety, Clinical Depression with self harm, Anorexia, and a profound sense of justice/injustice, if you betray her, are a hypocrit, or break a promise, you are dead to her.
The Fire Drake and Ice Dragon (son) is Autistic, has severe suicidal depression, especially when bullied at school, Social Anxiety, Executive Function Disorder, C-PTSD, all negative emotions start as anger
Finally, The Weeping Willow Dryad (mom) C-PTSD, Has endured 2 back surgeries that failed, chronic pain, Agoraphobia, Skleroderma, Raynauds, Rheumatoid Arthritis in her hands, Osteoarthritis in back and knees, Social Anxiety, Clinical Depression, and an emotional reactive disorder that has gone undiagnosed.
As Ringleader I am in charge of making sure everyone takes their medications, at least tries to get to some sort of therapy, drive everyone to appointments, physical and mental. Know everyone's favorite foods, cycles of physical and emotional needs, understand who is feeling ill when. Get all meds for everyone from the pharmacy. Attend 90% of appointments. Get food for everyone, that they like. Listen to the complaints of every single one of them.
When I finally speak about the negative behavior that is effecting people in the household, I get attitude.
From screaming, to blowing the comment out of proportion.
If I say "please stop answering people for me"
I get "I will never talk again, you never have to hear my voice ever again"
If I schedule a much needed test on the wrong day, I get guilty about it.
If I say "I would have done _____"
I am accused of telling people how they did it wrong.
I am trying to manage my home and the people in it.
All I really want to do is run away.
I dream of tropical places, and travel, and being responsible only for myself.
I feel like I am holding the whole place together, and without me no one will be able to function. This has been proven many times.
I am so tired, so empty, burned out.
The light I have always had is getting dimmer and dimmer, and I lost so many people because I had to protect myself from them in order to manage my home.
I know this is all a ramble...rant, maybe none of it makes sense.
I just needed to let it out somewhere.
#ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #BipolarDepression #ChronicDepression #Anorexia #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #FearOfAbandonment #Autism #Agoraphobia #SocialAnxiety #ExecutiveFunctionDisorder #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #PMDD #TemporalLobeEpilepsy #Epilepsy #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder #EatingDisorders #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Arthritis #Skleroderma #RaynaudsDisease #ChronicHeadaches #ChronicMigraines #InvisibleIllness
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