im about 15 and have been bulimic for only a year and i want to talk to my parents about it but i cant. everytime i try to start a normal converstaion with my mom we fight and for some reason the way she talks just bugs me. me and my dad arent that close and although i have a lot of amazing friends i dont want them to know. if i told my doctor she would tell my mom. i really dont no wat to do....
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I completely understand this apprehension to tell your parents.
The way I did it was I wrote a letter to my mom and it took two weeks, but finally I worked up the courage to give it to her one day.
It was probably the best thing I could've done, it started me on the path of recovery.
Hope that helps.
I don't know the relationship you have with your mom, but from what it sounds like, it isn't so easy to talk to her. Do you live near any treatment facilities? I am fortunate enough to live right near a mental hospital that has an in-patient program. I know countless people who have been hospitalized for depression and other illnesses, and everyone only has good things to say about the experience. Not only will you be able to fight of the ED, but your relationship with your mother might be repaired to some extent. What you need to do is work up the courage to sit her down and say, "I need you to know that it's taking all that's in me right now to say I need help." Tell her that you are sick and you have to get better, and you really can't do it alone. Say that you resent not knowing where to turn at first, but know that saying you need help is already half the battle. If you really are bulimic, just redirect your willpower against it. You can make it through this, cross my heart and hope to die. All the best.
hey, im 15 too, and ive been throwing up for well as long as i can rememeber but not religiously just now and then
but for the past 2 years i throw up at least 2/3 times a day
i dont know what to do either or how to give you advice :/
in a way i think maybe i don't want to stop?
all i want to do is be thin
i just , im so confused y'know?
hey. i know exactly how you feel about not being able to talk to your mother i am twenty now and i used to have a bad relationship with my mother when i was around you age and only now am i starting to be able tp talk to her. i think it was because i was so young and i was so annoyed with myself all the time that it reflected the attitudes of everybody else in my house! like i would be constantly fighting with her over nothing!!! I think as i got older i realised i just needed to get to know her better.
you will be ok just take you time there will be a moment with your parents where you can talk to them about this.
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