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  • Couldn't read and run. OP, if you feel you can't talk to anyone close to you please consider going for counselling or contact a support group. Eating disorders can be isolating but by seeking help you'll realise you're not in your own.

    B&T: from personal experience, eating disorders can develop over a long period of time to the point you don't realise what you doing is abnormal. It's often only identified when others pick up on it.
  • michelle67
    michelle67 Posts: 140 Forumite
    yes the weight is a problem which is y i need the surgery
  • iamana1ias
    iamana1ias Posts: 3,777 Forumite
    You have to sort out your relationship with food if you're planning a gastric band/bypass. You absolutely won't be able to eat normally afterwards, never mind binge eating. You'd make yourself extremely ill if you tried that.
    I was born too late, into a world that doesn't care
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  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    It's often identified when the binger keeps on having to buy larger and larger-sized clothing. If that's not a signal that something is horribly awry I don't know what is.

    Still, a solution has been offered to the OP and I think that she should accept it. There's no magic-wand which will make all this go away without some effort.
  • jungle_jane
    jungle_jane Posts: 635 Forumite
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    OP, now that you know that you have the disorder and having accepted this to be true...well you have taken a massive step forward hun so well done you. Even more importantly you are now looking around and asking for help. Even bigger step forward.

    Your best help will be professional - as Poly 1 said, B-eat sounds like a good first port of call. Did you doctor make any suggestions?
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    You could be suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It's a minor mental ailment. Don't hesitate, speak to your GP about it. Do you show signs of any other obsessive behaviours? That would kind of confirm it.
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    Did your doctor make any suggestions?

    Yes, they did. The doctor has suggested counselling which the OP doesn't want to do. I have a feeling that the OP might be hoping for a quick-fix but there really is no such thing.
  • michelle67
    michelle67 Posts: 140 Forumite
    yer the doctor has started the ball rolling for councilling in which i waiting to hear but im not really the best person to talk about things as i always bottle things up all the time
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    You mustn't bottle anything up with a counsellor. You do want to get better don't you?
  • michelle67
    michelle67 Posts: 140 Forumite
    yes i do want to get better
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