tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561748834204284315.post2615114574893353040..comments2024-03-23T08:25:22.526-04:00Comments on ED Bites: My mind as a truckCarrie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02569839838912988783noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561748834204284315.post-24758687988047158362010-03-07T17:25:00.519-05:002010-03-07T17:25:00.519-05:00I finally understand why I always feel like my min...I finally understand why I always feel like my mind is going a million miles an hour! I'm always worrying about things and thinking about thing and analyzing things until I get to the point where I'm overwhelmed. When I can't take it anymore, since I suffer from binge eating disorder, I binge to smother those anxieties and to distract myself. And it works, until I start thinking again...gettingoutofBEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15690146582899473094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561748834204284315.post-11698270939238782412010-03-07T16:47:26.205-05:002010-03-07T16:47:26.205-05:00I really identify with you trying to outrun the &q...I really identify with you trying to outrun the "truck" in regards to excersiie. Excersie was my major outlet for anxiety and trying to constantly "outrun" it I always had to add more and more. It has recently come to light that everyone always thought I was doing exercise to burn more and more calories, when in fact the calorie burn was really just the side effect to me. Exercise was the "medication" I took to alleviate my anxiety and if it worked so well why not add more, or so I thought.Hannah Sieglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10302103649816751972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561748834204284315.post-85283185891935230692010-03-07T16:15:36.674-05:002010-03-07T16:15:36.674-05:00I like your therapist's take on things, and I ...I like your therapist's take on things, and I think that acceptance is a good word for how I have learned to live with my 'trucks' (which I think would be depression and anxiety too). It's only been in the last year that I've realised that running away from things makes them seem bigger, louder and scarier, and that sitting with them and realising that they can't hurt you takes all the power out of them. When I started really trying to get my panic attacks under control about five years ago I sort of intuitively taught myself the DBT skills of observing, describing and mindfulness without actually having done DBT at that point. I did a similar thing in recovering from the anorexia, I learned how to take a step back from my ED thoughts and anxieties and see them as symptoms rather than things I believed. Accepting that the ED and anxiety were going to be in my head for the foreseeable but constantly reminding myself that I did not need to react to them was probably the *thing* that made my recovery work this time. Funnily enough, after working so hard on this I am the least anxious and most free from anorexic thoughts that I have ever been :)<br /><br />Good luck with your trucks Carrie!Katiehttp://themilkfreeway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com