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I can definitely relate to your obsessions with body image. I've been struggling for decades with anorexia nervosa. I am no longer at a dangerously low weight but I obsess about eating/not eating, looking at myself in the mirror and on and on and on. I'd suggest getting a diagnosis from a primary health physician and also a therapist. Poor body image and eating disorders often show up when we're in college.
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Keeping a food journal didn’t help me. It just reminded me of what I ate and made me feel worse. Start slow. And try to surround yourself around people who don’t make you feel uncomfortable about eating. My mom was the worst ... always asking me what I ate or if I ate that day. So I had to distance myself from her
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I always see myself as fat. Every single day when I look in the mirror I see a tiny bit of fat and instantly tell myself that I am. But like I know I'm far from it realistically. But theres something in my brain that just doesn't get that. I constantly stress over how much I'm eating, how much I'm working out (which has been almost nothing right now because like you, im in school and I've been waaaaay too busy). When I'm slightly bloated from eating I feel like the ugliest thing that ever existed on this planet. I wish I could help you more to be honest but I haven't had much treatment for this problem yet (seeing a psychiatrist on Wednesday). Just know that you are not alone! Even if you believe you aren't beautiful, just know that there are tons of people out there who do believe that you are (including me!). Definitely seek professional help for this though if you feel you cannot handle it on your own, or you feel it is having a negative effect on your daily life
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I feel you. I am not fat at all but I’m so afraid of becoming over weight over time. I have orhtorexia and a small amount of Anorexia because I skip meals and eat very low amounts of food and I limit a lot of my food intake of fats and carbs. I’m currently working on getting a better mindset of eating and weight because I’ve lost 10 pounds in the past 2 months. I suggest getting help from your doctor or parents before it becomes worse. I wish I did. I’m still struggling but I’ve learned that food is important for your daily function and that eating more is healthier than less. Your doctor will know what to do and they will inform you and make you feel better about your diet. I also have apps that are good for logging food and keeping track of food if you think that could help. Good luck!
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yes I have intrusive thoughts about my body image and it sucksssss
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I have been struggling with this everyday for the past 16 years. I see two therapists and a Dietitian
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It isn’t easy.. but the therapy helps
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i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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It is not the thoughts or urges that scare me anymore. It is the way I feel like I’ve absorbed the compulsions into my identity :( I am doing them so automatically that it feels like I am choosing them freely and they’re me. and because of that, it feels like I AM the OCD now, not just someone with OCD. I think I’m just deeply trapped in a loop. I was trying to survive unbearable fear so I started scanning. Then I started pre-scanning. Then checking if I pre-scanned. Then I check how I feel during all that. I run to beat my OCD to the “punchline” (intrusive thought, urge, sensation) because I’m so scared all the time. So scared that I don’t even feel it anymore. I feel numb and all that’s left is this jittery residue and numbness. Now it’s all tangled together in a huge knot. I feel so extremely lost. I think this may just be meta OCD, but I’ve never ever felt so gone before :( I’m really scared.
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Finally slept well today! Which is nice. Regardless, I feel like it has destroyed who I am. Its been over a year and a half, and I keep overthinking and questioning my identity and I can’t let it go to the point where I feel that my future is certain, even though I’ve liked myself the entire time and had a pretty stable idea of who I was. My mind has gathered enough proof. I love being a woman, and I don’t want a different body. I wasn’t born in the wrong body. I am obsessing over my voice, which needs no changes, and my chest. After speaking to a friend of a friend, I’m afraid I’ll want a sex change when I finally have a partner. I’m terrified. I don’t know if anyone can relate. I don’t know how to get over this and my first ERP session is in about a week. How do I even go about this? I feel like a monster to my own family.
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