It has been this way for several days now.
It's not good or bad, just unsettling and means it's hard for me to write anything here.
Too many jumps in emotions. Or too quickly. Or both.
Ok- this is this the 'thing'. And I don't like to validate the way I feel emotionally to how I am physically but I know EXACTLY what my issue is now:
Currently, I'm around a body weight where i'm still 'healthy' but only just. And I mean from a medical proffesional chart type of thing. Were I to actually have a BMI calculated, it would be in the healthy range but a couple of pounds down would be too low.
I'm happy with how I feel, look, the way my clothes fit, the way I feel physically, the type- frequency and amount of food I consume, my social eating is going ok (it's better than in a long time)... So...
WHATS THE FUCKING PROBLEM?....
Surely this would be everything I need to just carry on living and flapping about with the every day stuff- work, needing to go buy make-up, have I called my mom in days????
Problem is: l'm not used to functioning normally at my current physical status.
There. I said it. And this is what it means:
Whenever I have gone rapidly downhill ED & depression wise, in the past, it has always been at around this stage. Now, this time it's different.
I'm the way I am now from cutting back on drinking alcohol all the bloody time.
I'm the way I am now from doing some exercise.
I'm the way I am now from eating a wide range of foods from all different food groups and not 'binging on protein' or 'getting stuffed on vegetables' or eating 20 diet yogurts in a day.
I'm the way I am now without being terribly depressed, out of control, abusing alcohol, hurting my family.
I am the way I am now and holding down my job, looking after my family, having fun and living a nice life.
I have linked, in my head, that being physically, as I am now, with being in a pretty bad Eating Disorder place.
And this is why my mood jumps are so frequent lately. When I'm at work or having fun or enjoying time with my family, I am the strong, confident happy person that is Sar. This is where I believe I am REALLY- deep down, I am still this Sar and NOT the 'ED' Sar.
When I'm tired or having a down day or out somewhere I don't want to be, I am hunched up, hands in sleeves, looking afraid and skinny and holding myself as I did deep in the ED- checking for 'bones', room in jeans, measuring arms with hands and portraying myself as though I would rather be invisible. But this isn't where I am mentally. I can just slip in and out of this, like a spoiled child, when it's all too much- an escape route, a trap door.
And I guess that last line sums it up. I'm in a very safe but very dangerous place. It's up to me to stay on the safe side as that is what I want for myself. But i'm close enough to the bad place that if 'need strikes', I'm within reach of the deadly crutch.
And maybe that is why I'm so far from full recovery but so far from being ill.
I posted here, a while ago, about this subject but couldn't put my finger on why I am stuck in this place. Now, it's quite clear.
I won't accept full recovery but won't allow myself to be ill.
And now I have some thinking to do. Input anyone?Lastly and totally off subject...
I took this picture last week, before I came into work one morning. I was early and went for a wander...This church is at the back of where my office is and I hardley ever go over. It was so beautiful and peaceful, I wanted to freeze time and just stand there... it was perfect. And even my shitty camera phone managed to do it justice. ;)
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hi sar
ReplyDeletedont let this bugger take over again. its like its mugging you. you have awareness. do you find if a few things go wrong, then a few more things its easy to slip back into passive you? like f***it whats the point.
these past few weeks, ive been kind of making a deal with myself. i know that if im more healthy i will feel better, perhaps the m.e will ease off too. but after years of being at a low weight its so bloody difficult. but im going to try. im sitting her typing, feeling uncomfortable already. yet i have to see beyond this. its an odd things to do, to work upwards, instead of downwards on the scale.
one thing have you any hobbies? something you could immerse yourself in. anything really. i know your busy with family, running a house, work, but you need something for you. i know for sure it helps me. i love making things, seeing things through.
your stronger than the bastard ed.
alice.