mind you the sphere of the internet i was on as a teenager (wattpad > pop punk twitter > kpop twitter) had 0 chance of ever introducing me to them and it’s not like SHE was out here bumping do i wanna know
@etherealstellaa + i don’t want anyone else irl to know beyond the few ppl that already do. i keep telling myself “i’ll only mention it when i’m thin enough to actually look disordered” and i know how crazy that is 😞
i don’t have an official diagnosis but both therapists i’ve had have agreed i likely have anorexia and my boyfriend, who previously had anorexia, is very confident i have it. so i say i’m anorexic
hot take but u don't need to be professionally diagnosed with an ed to be on edtwt... it doesn't take a psychiatrist to realize u starving urself isn't normal
@etherealstellaa YES EXACTLY. i’m very lucky in that i qualify for government insurance and all of my mental health care is fully covered, but i do not feel comfortable telling my psychiatrist about my ed. i don’t think she’d think i’m lying but i have such internalized shame around it that +
@Sierqc oh no 100%!! at my lw i was happy i’d lost so much but i still hated my body and wanted to lose more, same thing’ll probably happen this time around too 😭😭
@Sierqc + she was a little worried. i’d lost 50lbs in a year and she’d always complain about how bony my shoulders had gotten. THATS ALL TO SAY … 1. when ur disordered u genuinely never know what u rly look like and 2. if they genuinely care, i don’t think the intention was to mock u
tbh yeah. i wasn’t even worried about beauty standards when i was a kid, i just hated being one of the bigger kids. and even when i became aware of the expectation to be small i wasn’t motivated by that, i just hated how i looked