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Ballerina, I think at some point it would be worth tackling this with your GP, but in your own time. For now, why not try chatting to your mum about cutting some food out? Maybe you could offer to help prepare your meal if it's going to be different - maybe that would help you be sure it's prepared properly, too.
i suppose really it can only come down to one thing if you do, and that is that you must confront your fear. eat meat, (- cannot believe i just said that), or eat out or whatever - and afterwards make a point of noticing that you are not sick... i guess if you did that often enough it would confront your fear to such an extent that your fear would become trivial to you.
except of course in the rare and very unfortunate event that you do get sick... which might just magnify your fear further...
if you give into fear. it has control and it rules you. it then magnifies itself and gets bigger and bigger and bigger... the ONLY way to make it stop is to force the issue and confront it. i mean, you could go and see your gp or go and talk to a c*untsellor but in the end i'm sure they will just tell you the same thing... that the only way out is through. you need to face your fear.
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simple as that, really.
for someone with a phobia, you have two choices. either you strap your balls on and fight it, or you let it snatch away your life, piece by piece. i do things every day that scare the shit out of me, but i do them because i want to not be scared by them, and every day they get less scary. i have been dealing with this fear for as long as a lot of people on this board have been alive, and in my opinion, if i had been taking the steps i take now when i was your age, i would not still be dealing with it. act now.
Indeed.
After I started questioning the fact that my meat had veins and bits of cartilage, I became a vegetarian about 6 years ago. I've been a vegan for about 8 months, and as a student, its very difficult. I cant just pick up any old snack or sandwich, the evil cheese and milk monster is everywhere.
That kind of attitude is difficult to get from just reading a post. People with these sorts of problems need prodessional help. They also need to read about their problem, and find out the information to help themselves.
True, its like a person who lost loads of weight and goes to the gym everyday, who then tells an overweight person how easy it is, all they need to do is to eat right and exercise.
To me, these sorts of experiences seem unique to the person. You have to experience that moment of clarity, when you realise how silly you've been. Someone else can’t do that for you. But other people can point the way.
After having read otter's posts, I realise that a lot of good points were made. That is a classic psychological technique.
Again, I'll say that reading about your own problems can be a way to improve things, but sometimes we all need some guidance. If the original poster is worried about their dad's reactions, why not talk to a GP and get Referred to a psychologyst.
I have "this sort of problem" and have had for 17 years, so I feel qualified to talk on the matter.
professionals didn't understand and their help didn't work for me.
however i do believe that having problems with food is a psychological / mental health problem and should be taken very seriously by people who are supposed to help treat the problem ~ but alas that is never the case.
Whoever tried saying this is like fat people being unable to lose weight though is wrong! lmao - If you put yourself in a calorific deficit you will lose weight.. its not hard! Unless you have medical disorder like overactive thyroid which lets face, not many people do, and the doctors will hook you up if that's the case! bit off topic sorry! :thumb:
maybe you should read my whole post properly before making a comment. Infact your comment actually supports my point. A thin person telling people how easy it is to lose weight just makes me laugh.
Can i just say not to be picky but it's and underactive thyroid which causes weight gain not over. Plus it's not just as simple as putting someone on tablets and hey presto you should be able to lose weight.
Putting someone on thyroxine doesn't make them back to how every other "normal" person works. It's hard to explain.