By Rainbow92 - 19/08/2009 23:43 - Bulgaria

Today, I decided I need help, so I confessed to my mother that I'm bulimic. After she looked it up online she started screaming at me for "Wasting food that I'm not paying for." FML
I agree, your life sucks 54 039
You deserved it 11 447

Same thing different taste

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OP, I'm sorry 90% of the people in this thread are being assholes. I'm a recovering bulimic myself and I know how hard it can be. If your mom doesn't understand, please seek therapy so you have someone to listen to you and help you through these difficult times. And to everyone giving her crap for "wasting food middle Eastern kids could eat," it's not as though she's physically stealing food from underprivileged. Her not throwing up her pizza isn't going to buy one for a refugee camp. If you're so concerned about starvation, donate food or money or time to charities helping them instead of sitting around mocking someone on the internet. You might think you're Mother Theresa, but bitching on FML isn't putting food on anybody's plate.

Lame. That sucks that your mother did not react how you needed her to. I hope she comes to be more supportive. I wish you the best in your recovery.

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Ron24 0

ok? so le me get this straight? according to most of you, the OP deserves it because other people are starving in the world? so according to you, if she does eat it, all those people will magically be fed? FYI, they will still be hungry.

dallasFAN 0

YDI for having protected sex.

dallasFAN 0

In response to you point 6-E; You are bitching. Quite a lot, actually. Not go get a few more brain cells pounded out of you head so that you lose the ability to communicate and we don't have to put up with your self-absorbed bullshit.

FalconWhitaker 20

How exactly are you wasting food that you haven't paid for? That makes no damn sense, unless you're stealing then binging. Your mom is insane. o_O Also, I hope you get the help you need, and that the stupid people commenting here realise that bulimia is an illness, FFS, and you cannot just snap your fingers and fix something like that.

ClaireXX 0

I think her mom meant that the OP didn't pay for the food, the mom did. So she thinks she is wasting her mom's money.

Ok let's see how stupid the OP is. Eat. Keep your fingers out of your mouth. Done. Congrats I've been doing that since I was born! Your amazing. Oh and instead of being a bitch about how u look either don't eat or stop wasting food u dumb *****... It's always these women and there stupid shit. First breast cancer now this cmon man up bitches and make me a sandwich

omgzitsjen 0

You're an ignorant, sexist troll. It's not that easy. It's a ******* mental illness!

elfuzzo 0

Bulimia isn't a mental illness. It's something stupid people do to themselves. The "cure" is to stop shoving your fingers down your throat. The people who do this to themselves have pulled wool over the eyes of everyone else convincing them that it's an "illness" when it's just them trying to create an excuse for their own shitty choices.

Hm? Women can't help having breast cancer. What are you on about? That's like me saying 'oh honestly these stupid men, with their testicular cancer.' As for the bulimic part, I think it may be a mental illness... it's like smoking or taking drugs, you do it a few times or even once, and you're addicted, and need help etc. And while the majority of bulimics are women, men get it too. Stop being stupid and sexist and grow up.

z411811 0

Breast cancer is a real illness caused my mutations of cells. How the hell can you become addicted to puking? Anyone with common sense isnt sitting at home right now thinking you "know i have tried smoking but i dont like it, i gonna try puking. Yeah that sounds fun maybe it will make me thing too" How can you even compare cancer and involuntary illness with bulimia a stupid decision made because the had bad self esteem

letitbe56 0

Bulimia nervosa is a real disorder caused by disregulation of the hypothalamus and imbalances of certain neurotransmitters and hormones, including serotonin. It IS an illness with biological causes, that are exacerbated by sociocultural and other environmental factors.

Perhaps this is the way for her mother to handle it, have you thought of that? Perhaps being supportive, understanding, and sensitive isn't going to help. Perhaps her mother should scream at her and scare her shitless; that might actually solve the problem. Fear and threats have been known to alter people's behaviour, and maybe being nice here isn't going to cut it. If she's young enough, and her mother has firm authority over her, she might actually help her daughter--for all the wrong reasons, of course, but who cares? Oh my, her mother has no understanding of the problem! She has no idea how hard it is! She just wants to stop it, because it's a waste of money. And guess what, what if she stops it? Some people are just not rich enough to afford certain illnesses...That's why the excess of wealth tends to destroys the society. The world is not driven around by the contentment, but by the necessity. A recession might be a blessing for all you know it...Just imagine eating disorders disappearing once acquiring food becomes a problem! ...heh, doubt this is a sacrifice you're willing to make.

omgzitsjen 0

All of you people saying that she's wasting food are ignorant ass holes. You have no idea what an eating disorder is! It is a mental illness. This girl is sick and you're telling her she is selfish! What's wrong with you people?!? Please don't speak unless you KNOW what you're talking about. Honey I know exactly what you're going through. I have an eating disorder and my parent's are suspicious of it and yell at me all the time. It's horrible. Even if you're mom isn't supportive you can get help from someone else. Oh and I want to make it clear that you're not selfish at all. Good luck hun.

BikerMike 0

I dated a girl like that in high school. take her to eat and she would puke it up. One time she came over and I had some cat food for her. She was pissed about the cat food and I told her I was not going to waist good food on someone who is going to puke it up.

JournalKeeper 0

just because a person is bulimic doesn't mean she has to be fat. Most of the people i hang around are bulimic and they are super skinny. And she's not wasting food if she ate it already. If her moms cooking is terrible then i don't blame her. Even I do it, but i can't not with my bf watching me every time i go to the bathroom. Lol sounds like a stalker but he found out at a restaurant. I'd tell the story but w/e it's too late and i'm tired FYL. Kill your mom