Originally Posted by
MidnightBlue Scott, in this case poison matters. You can't "accept" that you can't have food. And believe me, almost any kind of food can trigger a food addict.
And, actually, disciplined control vs. "I am helpless over" is an important factor to deal with an eating disorder.
Sorry, perhaps I didn't word my response carefully. With an eating disorder the "poison" would more likely refer to the volume/type of food or the binging/purching cycles and not actually removing food from the equation completely - that would have dire effects of course.
I don't have an eating disorder myself but have immediate family members who do so I definitely understand the seriousness of the condition.
But I still think that it's important to accept the reality of addition or any kind of disorder before one can make steps to improve. I am diagnosed GAD and health anxiety and I had to accept that there is simply something different about the way my body reacts to stress in order to start getting help for example. Obviously I can't remove stress from my life completely, but I can learn different ways to deal with it and change my lifestyle.