Are You Struggling With Eating Disorder?

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

By Ashley Houston


There are many serious health and mental health issues that people deal with everyday in every part of the world. People understand many sicknesses and diseases that are well known but there are those that are not discussed or remain misunderstood. Having an eating disorder is one of the conditions that is rarely understood by most people.

Because eating disorder is a sickness that is not often recognized until it is fairly serious, struggling with it can be difficult. People start to show signs of having an eating disorder for lots of reasons. There are those who are unhappy with the way their body looks or with their current weight. There are people who suffer from the verbal abuse of a spouse or friend that makes remarks about beauty or weight and it is hurtful. Still others who start having an eating disorder do so as a means of controlling a part of their lives when the rest of their life seems out of control. It is an extremely tough sickness for people to conquer and be free of regardless of the reason that an eating disorder begins.

Having an eating disorder is not always noticeable to the people around you which is why it is an extremely isolating thing to live with. Most people who struggle with an eating disorder find a strange mix of comfort and angst in this. On one hand it is great that their problems can be kept secret from the ones around them, but on the other hand many times an eating disorder is a cry for the help and intervention of others.

Becoming a trap that keeps them struggling longer and harder is the isolation that many people experience with an eating disorder. Besides feeling that they are unable to seek help, they are also unable to handle the pressures of the eating disorder on their own so that even the ones who deeply desire to be free from their eating disorder live for weeks, months or even years without the ability to see freedom as a real possibility for them.

The best thing that you do is get help if you think that you may be struggling with an eating disorder. Fight through the hardness and awkwardness of sharing your secret struggle. Helping to save you in the long run is opening up to someone that you love and trust about your eating disorder even though it might feel easier to keep your problem a secret now. Make sure that you take the problem to someone that can really help you or at least find you the help you need. An eating disorder, while it is extremely tough to deal with, does not have to mark the end of your dreams or your livelihood. A necessary first step to finding healing and hope is getting help.




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