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- 3y ago
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Hi! I’ve struggled with anorexia in the past so I totally get you. I would recommend u to eat whenever you feel hungry. Go make a sandwich eat some cereal. Your body needs fuel and even if u are gonna have dinner later, eat a little snack rn! You deserve it! Ik it’s hard when there’s a little voice telling u not to eat, but you are stronger than that voice.
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- 3y ago
It sounds like your mom's comment was very invalidating. I'm so sorry she said that to you. You sound like you were very in tune with what your body needed and you considered the fact that you've hardly had anything to eat today. No one should ever try and tell someone that they don't feel something that they do. You feel hungry, and no one else can tell you whether you do or not. That is only your feeling to have. I hope you continue to be kind to yourself and don't let the invalidation of others hinder your progress. Keep taking care of you ♡
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- 3y ago
I’m so sorry your mum was so dismissive. Just because someone dismisses your reality, doesn’t make your reality any less real. You are in control and you know what’s best for your body.
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Heat often causes myself and my family to lose our appetites! I think it’s common. Eat when you’re hungry, follow your bodily cues (given theyre back to normal now that you’ve gone through disordered eating). Sometimes we’re just not hungry and I myself have to accept this as well before I panic. It’s unfair for your mom to put a timeline on when you’re hungry as everyone’s body is different. Could you make something yourself for dinner? Or have a snack before it’s made? Eating when you’re hungry is important. You’ve got this!
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- 19w ago
Hey guys! So I struggle with OCD, especially harm, relationship and moral stuff and I am somewhat recovered now. However, my current girlfriend has started showing signs of OCD but it’s abou5 something I don’t know much about so I wanted to see if anyone on here had thoughts about it. She is constantly thinking about food (when to eat it, what is healthy, what is too much, what is too little) and controls the thoughts by giving in and controlling her entire day around food. She don’t really know the feeling of being full. She never starved herself and always eats, but then she feels extremely guilty afterwards. Her thoughts do have to do a lot with her body image and not gaining weight but also not losing any either. Does this sound like ocd or an eating disorder?
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- 19w ago
I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
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- 14w ago
I’m feeling kind of sad cause today was not a really good day in terms of my ocd. I was feeling kind of foggy/numb and that send me to spiraling. I’m 21 years old currently studying but my family has been having trouble with money for the last couple years(we’re just me and my mom) and I kinda want to get a job but everything is far from my home and I wouldn’t be able to return back at night, also it’s either way more expensive to move or the schedule wouldn’t let me take my classes. The point is that because of that every time my mom is stress tends to treat me bad, she speaks to me like I’m stupid or she just screams to nothing cursing all life and everything and that actually makes me feel soo bad and guilty for not doing anything, I know it’s hard for me to get a job that actually helps us without quitting school but that doesn’t stop me from feeling like I’m a burden. I want to help, I want to maybe hug her or something but I know she will be angrier and probably will reject it. So that’s it, I just feel like she punishes me for the stress she’s carrying and I get it but one day is happy and it feels like all love and the next is treating me like that, Idk it’s hard (also I feel like I shouldn’t be saying this cause it’s all my fault) 🫤
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