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I never counted calories until I was told that people with anorexia are fixated on calories
When I was last in #eatingdisorders treatment it was suggested to me to count calories even though I'd been a healthy weight & not calorie-counted for over 5 years
This is a problem 🧵->
When I was last in #eatingdisorders treatment it was suggested to me to count calories even though I'd been a healthy weight & not calorie-counted for over 5 years
This is a problem 🧵->
At what stage to we stop and think about how treatment might actually introduce people to harmful behaviour/thoughts/beliefs by imposing pretty fixed understandings of what it is to have a particular condition? I think this happens in #eatingdisorders
When those in authority, with the power to define constructs, say "#anorexia is this" (for example) - to what extent do *some* patients then feel that this construct is something they have to fulfil, embody, talk the language of?
To what extent do patients get *given* identities?
To what extent do patients get *given* identities?
Het is een trieste dag als je een #OMT-lid moet debunken. Maar dit artikel staat zo verschrikkelijk vol met misinformatie, het moet maar.
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@milenaholdert stelde vragen over de onderbouwing. Net als een ander #OMT-lid (die deze later weer verwijderd heeft)
Ik had eerder al e.e.a. uitgezocht, dus even wat feiten op een rij
Ik had eerder al e.e.a. uitgezocht, dus even wat feiten op een rij
Om te beginnen, Karoly Illy is:
voorzitter van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde,
kinderarts van Ziekenhuis Rivierenland in Tiel en
lid van het Outbreak Management Team (OMT).
Als er iemand op de hoogte zou moeten zijn van de cijfers is hij het wel. Toch?
voorzitter van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde,
kinderarts van Ziekenhuis Rivierenland in Tiel en
lid van het Outbreak Management Team (OMT).
Als er iemand op de hoogte zou moeten zijn van de cijfers is hij het wel. Toch?
Post partum bodies! Please read full thread
Can we normalise REAL post partum bodies please. I'm sick of being asked how I am going to loose my baby weight? How am I going to get back into shape? What creams I am using to get rid of stretch marks?
Piss off.
Can we normalise REAL post partum bodies please. I'm sick of being asked how I am going to loose my baby weight? How am I going to get back into shape? What creams I am using to get rid of stretch marks?
Piss off.
I was told it would not be possible to carry a child due to the damage my eating disorder had done to my reproductive system. We are overwhelmed with what we have managed to produce.
The last thing my body needs is to be manipulated, punished and starved.
The last thing my body needs is to be manipulated, punished and starved.
My body has done an incredible job over 9 months, it needs to be cared for, nourished & loved.
I have seen so many # insta perfect post partum bodies. I am also being targeted by adverts to join weight loss programmes enticing me to hate what my body has becone.
I have seen so many # insta perfect post partum bodies. I am also being targeted by adverts to join weight loss programmes enticing me to hate what my body has becone.
A thread....
Recovery truth
I'm not going to lie. It is hard. The most difficult & most painful thing I have ever done. To constantly fight against that voice, the voice which controlled every element of my life for far too long. The tears, confusion and pure exhaustion.
Recovery truth
I'm not going to lie. It is hard. The most difficult & most painful thing I have ever done. To constantly fight against that voice, the voice which controlled every element of my life for far too long. The tears, confusion and pure exhaustion.
The voice still appears from time to time, in times when I am feeling a little vunerable or anxious. The voice will try to lure me back in, using different ways and weak spots to get to me.
The latest way it's trying to lure me in is attacking my postpartum body. Nothing fits my body is still healing, it needs time. The temptation to loose weight quickly, resort to old behaviours & the voice whispering, you have done it before, you can do it again, it's easy really.
❤️ I am giving it my all. Diet culture has reared its ugly head, I am being targeted by alll the 'post baby body' dieting ads.😮❤️My body has been through so much over the last nine months. It has changed a lot, in order to create the most beautiful gift I could ever wish for.1/3
The last thing I am going to do is put it under more stress by trying to manipulate it. ❌
👍Instead I am going to allow my body to heal, nourish my body with food and thank it for the amazing job it has done. ❤️
Our bodies really are bloody amazing 💕💕 2/3
👍Instead I am going to allow my body to heal, nourish my body with food and thank it for the amazing job it has done. ❤️
Our bodies really are bloody amazing 💕💕 2/3
Please read whole thread
It has taken me a few weeks to process this.
Let me tell you a conversation I had with a Dr recently. Had to visit & get checked over general pregnancy niggles, they had to check my BMI.
It has taken me a few weeks to process this.
Let me tell you a conversation I had with a Dr recently. Had to visit & get checked over general pregnancy niggles, they had to check my BMI.
Dr: Oh Mrs Burnett you are measuring obese, we need to look at diet plans, I can suggest the new better health app, a calorie defecit & exercising.
Me: But I am 8 & a half months pregnant & recovering from an ED.
Me: But I am 8 & a half months pregnant & recovering from an ED.
1st of all of course I am going to be weighing more a tiny human is growing inside me, I could pop any day now. 2nd I was discharged from ed services in Jan, suggesting I diet is not a good idea. I know I would spiral quite quickly and my priority is staying well for little one
Last year I jumped out of a plane for the amazing charity @beatED raising an amazing £2200
I would not be here without their help and support I desperately wanted to give something back to the charity that helped both myself and my husband. (1)
I would not be here without their help and support I desperately wanted to give something back to the charity that helped both myself and my husband. (1)
Leaving behind ED & facing my ultimate fears. I'm scared of flying & heights, so if I can face them I can face any fear ED threw at me. I thoroughly recommend this! I'm aware things aren't exactly running normally at the min, but why not look into some fundraising for next year?
A year ago I was undergoing tests, years of living with an #eatingdisorder had damaged my reproductive system. I was told it wouldn't be possible to have children naturally, a massive blow. I was given the option of IVF but I had to be in solid recovery. 1/3
I worked hard, tears, anger and a lot of involvement from professionals, I reached my set point maintained and was well. I started the medication to regulate my hormones and my cycle, 5 months of different pills, just before we started IVF we found out we were pregnant.
My eating disorder nearly took away my chance of starting a family. Last night I sat and cried on my husband, overwhelmed that in 7 weeks we are going to be parents.words can not describe how greatful I am for my treatment team @LPFTNHS for helping me reach my long term goal 3/3
Recovery tip. Stepladder goal setting.
Full video on my insta barefootrebel1
Remember this is just my example, you may have different steps, more steps less steps different goals different starting point. It is just an example.
I used this technique when I desperately wanted to..
Full video on my insta barefootrebel1
Remember this is just my example, you may have different steps, more steps less steps different goals different starting point. It is just an example.
I used this technique when I desperately wanted to..
to achieve a goal but it seemed so far away or just too much. Breaking it down into smaller steps, I found really useful.
If you get stuck DM I will be able to help you think and develop steps for your own goals.
Try not to have to many steps though or it can get to much again
If you get stuck DM I will be able to help you think and develop steps for your own goals.
Try not to have to many steps though or it can get to much again
I am so guilty of assuming the worst possible outcome, I often completely overlook the potential of a situation.
ED related example- if I eat this extra snack I may gain weight...... Alternative view, if I eat this extra snack it may aid my recovery and help me reach my goal.
1/3
ED related example- if I eat this extra snack I may gain weight...... Alternative view, if I eat this extra snack it may aid my recovery and help me reach my goal.
1/3
Life example - if I view my opinion in a meeting everyone will laugh at me....... Alternative view, if I view my opinion in the meeting my idea may help, if not at least I tried. 2/3
When you hear yourself jumping on the negative voice just stop and pause ...... How else could I view a situation. What is the best that could happen instead of assuming the worst and what would I say to a friend in this situation? 3/3
Just absolutely demolished fish and chips for tea
One of the best things about recovery is saying sod it, I don't fancy what was on our meal plan, I can not be bothered to cook let's just have a takeaway.
Complete freedom and a normal thing to do. No guilt or shame attached.
(1)
One of the best things about recovery is saying sod it, I don't fancy what was on our meal plan, I can not be bothered to cook let's just have a takeaway.
Complete freedom and a normal thing to do. No guilt or shame attached.
(1)
Did I overeat? Perhaps. But we have this amazing thing called a motabalism that can cope with day to day fluctuations. Complete freedom to change plans last minute, complete freedom to have what I fancy insted of what I 'should'' have. Complete freedom to enjoy my food (2/3)
(thread) Starting to read through and edit my friends and family chapter for my book. Reading through how others perceived my ED is heartbreaking. Seeing it through someone else's eyes gives me a whole new perspective on how EDs work. Very interesting even if it did make me cry.
Reading how my husband's heart was breaking as he watched me slowly kill myself, not knowing what to do. Reading how he thought he was loosing me as I pushed him away. Reading how he never once gave up hope, and fought tiresomely to help me fight. We won my darling. We beat it.
Starting June 1, I will tweet a chapter each day from my new book goodreasons.info about how the light of evolutionary biology can dissolve the mists that swirl around mental disorders. Well, some mists for some disorders. @DuttonBooks @hbes2019 @LondonEvolution @ISEMPH
From the Preface: I wanted to write this book as soon as I realized that evolution could explain why bodies are vulnerable to disease. But the rest of medicine had to come first. Why We Get Sick stirred lots of interest. The new book is about why mental illness exists at all.
For each chapter I address the question, "So what?" Saying what is true changes only views unless it also changes what people do. Mental health clinicians who understand evolution do their work differently and better. For all others, self-understanding is valuable in itself.
On Friday night, a family friend looked me up and down and said, “You? You don’t have an eating disorder! You look FINE!”
I tried to explain that eating disorders don’t have a look, that you can suffer in ANY size body, and the media portrayal of an ED is far from accurate but he just laughed and said, “I see you eat and you’re not emaciated.”
First of all, eating a crap ton of lettuce only isn’t actually ok in any way & people with Ed’s obviously eat SOMETHING or we’d die within a week. Obviously we eat (a lot of us are really good at hiding it) but it’s often not enough & with no flexibility & a ton of rules.
.@SarahbaxterSTM's argues that #fibromyalgia, #mecfs, #lupus, #depression, self-harming and #anorexia are caused by female ambition and fragility.
What's c. 1880 is new again.
thetimes.co.uk/article/kirsty…
What's c. 1880 is new again.
thetimes.co.uk/article/kirsty…
This is just so silly. In the 19th century, there was a panic in the medical profession (and among social commentators) about women becoming ill with neurological and "nervous" conditions because they were overworking their brains/nerves, which were naturally weaker than men's.
This “fact” was used to bolster the argument in favor of stopping women's formal education after age 16 and most certainly not letting them enroll in university.
