By Polly Mertens
Bulimia stories often tell the tale of the power that an eating disorder can have over you. However, at some point you have to be honest and ask yourself if this is the life you want to life. Do you want to continue letting your eating disorder control your life? Or do you want to take back control of your life and be the change that you wish to see?
Mine is one of the longer bulimia stories you will probably read about because I struggled with my eating disorder for 20 long years before I decided that enough was enough and decided to make the change; to be the change that I wished to see.
20 years of bulimia
Like many bulimia stories, mine started as a teenager. I started binging and purging when I was 14 and it was the beginning of 20 years of deception, self-loathing, and relinquishing my power to an addiction. It was two decades of me being out of control and letting food run my life.
After 20 years of living with bulimia, I had reached a crossroads in my life. Did I want the next 20 years to resemble the past 20 or did I wish a better life for myself? It was at this point that my recovery really began. I finally said 'No!' to my eating disorder (ED) and said 'Yes!' to life.
How your eating disorder controls you
Bulimia stories most typically are of women who are in the grip of an inescapable urge to binge and purge. This is an addiction like so many others where food is just an escape mechanism.
Author of various books relating to recovery from substance abuse and food addiction, Jack Trimpey characterizes addictions as something not really a part of the person, but an alter ego. An addiction creates a sort of Jekyll and Hyde type internal dichotomy with different personas assuming power at different times.
Time to wrest back that control
If your addiction causes you to binge and purge uncontrollably, then it is time you took back you power and start to help your self. Talk about your eating disorder with someone who cares about you, visit support groups online or offline, speak with a therapist and consider checking in to an ED rehab program. It is up to you to choose recovery over ED. Nothing will change until you do.
Successful bulimia stories, such as mine, are all about wresting back the control from an overbearing, controlling beast (or persona) commonly referred to as Ed. It takes you choosing life over an eating disorder. I have been fully recovered from bulimia for 6 years and I know that you can be, too. Just as I did, you can make that choice of life over an ED as well!
Polly Mertens struggled with bulimia for 20 years and is now fully recovered. She shares her own and other bulimia stories at her Web site Help-With-Bulimia.com. Learn more from valuable resources such as her bulimia recovery blog, newsletters and eBooks for people starting their recovery journey and start yours today.
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