Reply To: Eating disorders…

Okay so I started this thread because I have anorexia right now. I was told I am not allowed to fast also but I’m not sure what will happen with Tisha B’av and Yom Kippur (hopefully I’ll be a tiny bit better by then). It is a psychiatric disorder that manifests itself in eating. Not always is the person overweight before. In fact, I know someone who was underweight before and ate tons but had a fast metabolism who now has an ED and I also was not overweight. As my nutritionist has told me, its a distorted body image. Its as if you’re looking into the funky mirrors they have sometimes at museums or places that stretch you or make you look weird. You are seeing a different picture although it is so, so hard to accept. It is a living nightmare and nobody should ever have to go through it. I still think that things can be done to stop it from being so rampant. I feel a lot of pressure from shidduchim, personally.