Eating Disorders

Some old family friends are selling scam pyramid scheme weight loss products. One their ads actually had the audacity to claim that using their product could help an E.D. , when in fact we know they make it worse. Taking umbrage at their continuing outrageous claims, I responded to one of their FB posts. So now, my husband is mad at me. I don’t know if I was wrong or right. But I do know that I feel better. Thoughts ?
#EatingDisorders #Anorexia #Bulimia

Hi, my name is bellaTinne. I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder since I was a college sophomore in 2002. Since then I've been married, divorced, lost both parents, dated and found someone I genuinely care for again, and graduated in 2020 after starting in 2001. Hospitalizations, pitfalls, loss, grief, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, and many other dreadful conditions, such as diabetes in 2003. When my divorce was finalized, and I was on my own, I felt so alone, but now I've become a strong self-advocate for my health. I will openly confide in my employers about my illness, so they know what is happening in life and accommodations can be made for my disability. I'm happy to meet everyone and hope to welcome you too.

#MightyTogether #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #Migraine #PTSD #Grief #EatingDisorder #PolycysticOvarySyndromePCOS

Hi, my name is AuntieGigi. I'm here because
my family won’t recognize the sexual abuse my father yielded and in fact urge me to “forgive and move on”. Further, my mother makes this about her and causes me guilt.
#sexabuse #MightyTogether #Anxiety #Depression #EatingDisorder

I found this in my drafts from when I was 18 & I thought I’d share it with you all ♥️

Hello you, my dear old friend… you?
Yes you.
I’ve known you for a long time now, yet you have only just been discovered.
Uncovered.
For what and who you are.
Now, lets not get off on the wrong foot, I love you; but we gotta talk.
You give me a lot of happiness…
A lot.
When?
Whenever it best suits you, 12am? yeah, brilliant. Im not going to deny I hate the outbursts, because I love it, I love the thought that I think to myself even if its just for a moment, that I’m getting better. Im forward, socially loud.. probably too loud at times but do I care? Nope, not a bit. Why? because I feel like I am on top of the world.
I havn’t experimented with drugs, nor do I intend to, however I can guarantee you that this high is the best ride that no drug could ever give you. Like every single bit of dopamine hits you at once. You feel electric, you feel indestructible, at times you even feel like your ‘cured’ or ‘fixed’.
I also love everyone and everything, I will not be leaving your side.
‘Can people with Borderline love?’ – Yes, insanely. Most of us feel emotion, too much. We fixate, we worry but even though we may not always show it, we care more than what a person without the diagnosis ever could.
My dearest self, thankyou for your highs, your not all bad.
Your not all good though, are you?
‘What is it like?’
Well..
I get very anxious, particularly about how I’m perceived, whether I’m liked. I have tremendous fears of being abandoned. Break my trust? Have fun trying to get it back.
I’m impulsive. We all are from time to time. But with me, I really just can’t help it. I can be destructive, I can be relentless, and telling me to stop just fuels the fire.
When I get upset or distressed, have fun trying to get me out of that state of mind, because after 18 years of trying to shake myself out of it, I still don’t have a clue.
Borderline is hyperemotional, erratic, and irrational. As difficult as I know it can be to have someone in your life with it, it’s 10000 times more difficult to have it, take my word on that one.
I normally find it difficult to ever see myself at fault, all though I always feel faulty. Another one that I cant really work out to this day. Guarantee you that it will be everyone elses fault but my own, until about 10 minutes later and I feel sick to my stomach with guilt.
If you get angry at me and shout at me, I will 99.9% cry. This one is a major problem for me, and yes I know how it looks and no I cannot help it. Any form of trauma will set me into overload and I feel unable to cope. One minute I will be going off on one but the next I will not be able to fix a sentence together.
I never let my mind rest, paranoia takes over, massive bouts of it. So I will literally send myself into overdrive to avoid it, then will wonder why I feel unwell or stressed.
My capacity varies, I can take over the world one moment, you got a problem? Let me handle it. The next? absolute brain freeze. I really do care, please don’t think I don’t, its not me.
And the most infuriating part of my diagnosis was the fact that it took 5 years to diagnose.
I could be 5 years into my recovery now.
Ive battled a lot, ive starved myself of happiness and health.
Ive been called every name under the sun because people don’t understand me.
Ive been medicated since the age of 14. 4 years now Ive put serotonin in my body, hoping one day I can learn to accept myself and to try and feel validation.
Does it help? sometimes, I guess, but only if you want to help yourself.
But do I understand myself or my diagnosis?
Not one bit.
Do I think I ever will?
We will have to wait and see

#BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #MightyPoets #Depression #Anxiety #EatingDisorders #MentalHealth #BPDDiagnosis