Breaking The Silence of EDNOS

This is not just my blog. It's a blog for all of us-patients, professionals, friends, and loved ones-to come together and have honest conversations about eating disorders and recovery. RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE!!!!!!! god bless

[bodygenuine]

Recovery is not a race.

[bigfatscience]

Dieting and Weight Talk Are Bad for All Adolescents, Says American Academy of Pediatrics

This is big news people!! At long last, the powers that be have admitted that dieting, weight talk, and body shaming are unhealthy for adolescents and should be avoided.

After reviewing the literature on adolescent obesity and eating disorders, the AAP’s researchers identified five behaviors that are associated with both. Dieting, defined as “caloric restriction with the goal of weight loss”; weight talk, defined as “comments made by family members about their own weight or comments made to the child by parents to encourage weight loss”; and being teased about one’s weight all increase a teen’s likelihood of developing an eating disorder or gaining weight. Meanwhile, two behaviors seem to protect against both obesity and eating disorders: eating family meals together and cultivating a positive body image.  

I wish they had taken it a step further to decouple weight and health entirely, and the official report is still very fat-phobic… and frankly, nonsensical at times. They clearly conclude that dieting for weight loss are unhealthy and predict weight gain among adolescents, but still recommend that physicians “carefully monitor weight loss in an adolescent who needs to lose weight.” Inconsistent much? 

But this is still a big step in the right direction. If you are a young person being pressured to diet or lose weight by your family or doctor, or you know someone who is, tell those weight bullies that the American Academy of Pediatrics says they should back off!

Now, I wonder how long it will take before doctors admit that dieting, weight talk, and body shaming don’t magically become healthy when people reach adulthood?

[uneprincesseecriture]

IMPORTANT CHRONIC PAIN PETITION!!!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/dont-punish-pain-victims-amend-cdc-90-mme-guidelines-reduce-dea-pressure-doctors-prosecute-illegal-drugs

My friend Meagen Thompson created this petition to bring awareness to the current crisis chronic pain patients are facing on a daily basis. Four years ago, I was put on Hydrocodone (similar to Vicodin) for three separate chronic pain conditions-Cerebral Palsy, Lymphedema, and migraines because, and this is critical, NO OTHER medications were working. I’ve been diagnosed with migraines for eleven years, and in that time I was taken off and put on Imitrex, Ralpax, Verapamil, and countless other medications. These medications either were completely ineffective for me or worked but Medicaid declined to give me enough medication to last the month, which still left me in agony. Let me be clear. A migraine is VASTLY DIFFERENT from a “bad headache”. Migraines have caused me to: be dizzy, be incapable of driving my chair home, vomit, not be able to eat, sleep for 15 hours, not be able to sleep, be hospitalized, and fail college classes because they were so out of control i was being hospitalized frequently. Migraines are classified as a neurological headache disorder. I was born with spastic diaplegic Cerebral Palsy. Among a host of other symptoms, CP causes painful 24/7 tension in my body and painful violent muscle spasms which prevented me from driving at 16. My body’s natural state is one of rigidity and pain. Lymphedema occurs when the body’s system for getting rid of excess fluid is injured, causing severe swelling and pain, heaviness, and fatigue. I’ve had this illness for 6 years and was removed from Lymphedema therapy too early. Hydrocodone works for me. My doctors KNOW I don’t abuse it, and yet I cannot get this medication that increases the quality of my life exponentially because of government red tape. One prescription lasts me months typically. According to Indiana law, I exceed the requirements for getting a narcotic pain medication medically. And yet, I’m stuck in limbo being switched to a medication that makes me sick because my doctors’ hands are tied. My experience is NOT unique. There are millions of us suffering because no one actually thought this through. Yes, addicts deserve care, but not at the expense of the disabled community. We need our medications.

[junkiechurch]

oh u haven’t heard?? it’s all gonna be ok

[notesforselflove]

Society blames the victim for being raped or sexually assaulted.  Society tells girls how to act and what to wear so it doesn’t happen.  Society doesn’t berate boys when they cat call.  Or teach that assault and rape can happen to anyone anywhere at anytime.  

Men can hurt women.

Men can hurt men.

Men can hurt nonbinary/agender people.

Women can hurt women

Women can hurt men

Women can hurt non binary/agender people

Agender/non binary people can hurt men

Agender/nonbinary people can hurt women

Agender/nonbinary people can hurt Agender/nonbinary people

What all this means is anyone can hurt anyone.  Your anatomy doesn’t say you can or can’t be hurt.  Rape and assault is a preventable societal culture.  If we teach our kids to treat everyone with respect and to stand up to those who don’t, these will become less and less frequent and more and more people will come forward when something does happen.  

Teach everyone to treat people with respect.

Stop telling girls that what they wear is at fault.  

I was wearing pajamas when I got raped the first time, and jeans and a hoodie every time i got assaulted by her.

Clothes are not to blame for anothers actions.

If you see someone acting inappropriately towards someone else, please speak up, get help, don’t fall to the bystander effect.  Help stop it.   

[notesforselflove]

In case you needed a sign to not kill or otherwise hurt yourself:

THIS IS YOUR SIGN NEVER EVER GIVE UP

Put that drink down, put that sharp down, life will get better

[psychology-studyofthesoul-blog]

[officialdotpixis-deactivated201]

don’t ever feel bad for asking me to tag a trigger

i do not care what the trigger is

i will tag it for you

you have legitimate reasons to be triggered by it

and i am not one to question those reasons

so just send me an ask

anonymous if you’re scared

and i will tag it all the time in future

your wellbeing is worth twenty extra seconds of my time at least

[little-miss-tragedy]

Note to self: stop looking for reasons you don’t deserve love.

you deserve all the love by (DS)

[quotethat]

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls (via quotethat)

[maybe-i-will-be-thin]

[breakingthesilenceofednos]

person: "you're obsessed with your mental illness"

me: i know right? its like it impacts every part of my life.

person: "it's all in your head"

me: i know right? it's almost like it's a MENTAL illness.

person: "why do you let it affect you and stop you from being able to do things?"

me: i know right? it's almost like it's an ACTUAL ILLNESS

[psych2go]

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[quotemadness]

When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Laurie Halse Anderson (via quotemadness)

[uneprincesseecriture]

Me Before You Book/movie Rant

Why do people love this thing? It’s SO messed up in a million ways. 1. We’re not objects of pity. 2, While depression is something many deal with, it’s certainly not all of us. 3. If someone is depressed that severely, you get them psychiatric care. You don’t give them a girl in a dress. 4, Disabled people lead full happy, fulfilling lives. We are aunts, writers, college students, activists, parents, teachers and social workers, artists, computer techs, musicians, and more. 5. The idea that death is better than disability is DANGEROUS AF. It attempts to erase disabled people as a whole. It says “you’re so worthless because you can’t work or walk or hear. Go away because you can not contribute to the world the way you’re "supposed to”. Go die.“ This belief leads to abortions of disabled kids, hate crimes against us, bullying, domestic violence and certainly abuse of disabled children and much more. 6. The entire crux of the story is that Will wants to commit suicide because he detests being paralyzed. While that’s fine as a story point, the whole plot shouldn’t hinge on his "choice” (I’m using the term loosely. Depression is a mental illness.) or his “love story with his caregiver” (shouldn’t have happened in reality but hey creative license.).

What it SHOuLD have been about was the love story as Will works THROUGH the depression and learns to LIVE from a wheelchair. THAT would’ve been a book/movie I’d see and read.

This however is a disgusting display of all the worst ableist things packaged as a sappy YA chick lit novel and flick. In reality, it’s a shit show. Please don’t buy into the hype.

Fallon♿️🎶

PS The diarrhea frosting on this shit show cake is that the actor playing Will is ABLE-BODIED! Cast a white actor in a POC role and people get pissed. Your movie gets pulled. But it’s totally OKAY to just stick any jack ass in a wheelchair to play a disabled role. That’s not like black face at all…

[icantdrawbutdontcare]

[gender-sexuality-happiness-rage]