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It’s okay to have a setback. It doesn’t take away from your progress.

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Things People With Eating Disorders Wish Others Understood :

(Feel free to add your own as well)

1. Just because you’re in recovery doesn’t mean the underlying issues aren’t still there.

2. Binge eating disorder isn’t about not caring about your body and making poor choices.

3. When someone says, “You don’t look like you have an eating disorder,” it’s extremely triggering.

4. Eating disorders are so loud in your head.

5. Eating disorders don’t discriminate.

6. An eating disorder is not a “phase” or a goal. It’s a disease.

7. Eating disorders don’t just take over your eating habits; they dominate your entire life; every thought, every action.

8. It’s not about the food or weight — it’s deeper than that. We use the eating disorder to mask something underlying. This isn’t a choice or a lifestyle.

9. Everyone’s experience with an eating disorder is different.

10. Food is the symptom, not the root, of the eating disorder. It’s about the person’s psychological state of mind.

11. You don’t have to be underweight to have an eating disorder.

12. Weight restoration doesn’t mean you’ve beaten your eating disorder. It’s a struggle every day. There’s so much more to recovery than weight.

13. When I talk about my struggle with food it’s not for attention.

14. Things are not what they seem. Just because you’re eating doesn’t mean you’re “better.” Just because you gained weight or you haven’t lost any weight doesn’t mean you don’t have an eating disorder. Just because you look “healthy” doesn’t mean you don’t have an eating disorder.

15. It hurts to hear, “I wish I had that kind of discipline.”

16. No matter how far you are in recovery, little comments can still hurt.

17. It’s a serious disease with life-threatening consequences.

18. Basic things like going to a family gathering, going out on a date and leaving the house spur of the moment are not that simple for someone with an eating disorder. I have to get over huge mental hurdles just to do simple things.

19. It never fully goes away; it lingers in the darkest, deepest parts of your thoughts. It gets easier to deal with but will always be there.

20. I can’t just stop my eating disorder on the drop of a dime. Recovery involves changing my entire thought process and my views on food and my body.

21. While recovery is a choice, developing an eating disorder definitely is not.

22. Even if you appear “healthy,” you may not be… physically and emotionally. Eating disorders manifest in many ways.

23. Eating disorders make you always want to isolate yourself, and it’s very lonely.

24. You can’t “just eat.” The world inside your head is so twisted and controlling, a prison of black and white; it makes you fear every aspect of your life outside of your “control.”

25. Just because you eat something doesn’t mean you’re “all better.”

26. Sometimes telling someone who is recovering from an eating disorder that they ”look healthy now,” isn’t always seen as a compliment. In fact it can be very triggering.

27. Praising someone who is struggling with an eating disorder for the weight they lost just feeds into their disorder.

28. Making fun of someone for exercising, or having a certain food lifestyle can be extremely hurtful to those struggling with an eating disorder. It can be more harmful than helpful.

29. Yelling at someone struggling with an eating disorder to “just eat,” “stop purging,” or “just stop eating so much” tends to make them relapse deeper. It also makes it harder to open up.

30. Talking about weight, diets, exercise, and food around people who struggle with an eating disorder can be extremely triggering. This may lead to them relapsing.

31. Saying things like, “you actually ate,” or “can’t believe you ate breakfast/lunch/dinner” can make that person feel guilty for not obeying their eating disorder.

32. Sometimes hearing “you look sick,” or “you look extremely skinny” encourages that person to keep going... because that’s what the eating disorder wants to hear.

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Friendly reminder that you are not a bad person for not reading or watching the news. For not following every single event that happens. It can be so overwhelming and it is okay to step away from it. Some of us are fighting our own little wars, putting out our own little fires, trying to solve our own little crisises. I know you might feel horrible and selfish, but I promise you that you are not. So many bad things are currently happening and it can make you feel helpless, sad, anxious and as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders, but you cannot carry it; it is absolutely okay to distance yourself from that in order to take care of your mental health. It does not mean that you do not care about others and their misery. I know that. You know that. And that is all that matters, my love.

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“The worst memories stick with us, while nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.”

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Here's a flower for anyone who has been struggling but continues to keep fighting: 🌻

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‎ᖗ 　 🫧ㅤ۫ㅤ ⠀ ꕀ

‎𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾’𝗌 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗋𝖾𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝖺𝗄𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗆𝖾𝖽𝗂𝖼𝗂𝗇𝖾 , 𝗂𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗍𝖺𝗄𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝗒

‎ 🪷 𖦹 ∿ ᰍ ㅤ۪

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if you have ever suffered from…  

• depression 

• anxiety 

• eating disorder 

• self-harm

• ocd 

• bipolar 

• feelings of guilt and hopelessness 

• suicidal thoughts 

can you please reblog to show support for people who also suffer. you are not alone.

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“There’s really only one question, and it’s not “how are you doing,” it’s who do you trust enough to say “I’m not doing so good”?”

—Emily Prentiss, Criminal Minds

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“I don’t think you actually know how damn good you are doing considering that you didn’t get any proper childhood guidance on how to deal with your emotions and navigate through these life challenges, so taking that into consideration, you might be beating yourself up and saying that, ‘I’m not doing okay because I’m breaking down and falling down and I’m going through these different coping patterns.’ Yes, and I’m here to remind you that you are a human that didn’t get any guide on how to deal with all of this, so don’t forget to give yourself some slack and remember that you’re doing beautiful.”

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You're not too sensitive. You're not overreacting. If it hurts you, it hurts you.

Source: selfcareisapriority via Instagram

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