How Comparison is killing us<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s face it, we all do it.\u00a0 We compare ourselves in one way or another to something.\u00a0 Eating disorders will make you compare compare compare\u2026. The internal dialogue is constant comparisons.\u00a0 You walk into a room and think, \u201cwho is the thinnest, what did she eat, what did I eat, I wonder if she ran this morning, I can eat less than that, I have power, \u2026..\u201d.\u00a0 You might not want to admit it; however, if you do some soul searching it is true.\u00a0 I am not saying that someone with an eating disorder is selfish or conceited.\u00a0 This is NOT the case.\u00a0 But an eating disorder will change you.\u00a0 It makes you think things that are not typical for you!\u00a0 When you go through the cycle of restriction, binging, purging, exercising, and repeat— your mind goes into a mode of obsessive thinking.\u00a0 Obsessive thoughts are also a way to avoid thinking about other things in your life.\u00a0 They control anxiety.\u00a0 This is a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n
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Comparison will kill you.\u00a0 You will never be thin enough, sick enough, be THAT enough<\/strong>.\u00a0 You will never \u201clook like that enough\u201d to be deserving of treatment of help\u201d.\u00a0 You do not need to look a certain way to get treatment.\u00a0 <\/strong>Throughout my own treatment, working with many men and women, the first concern I have witnessed is the fear that people will be the only one that is \u201cnot sick\u201d enough.\u00a0 This is a climate that must change.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How Comparison is killing us Let\u2019s face it, we all do it.\u00a0 We compare ourselves in one way or another to something.\u00a0 Eating disorders will make you compare compare compare\u2026. The internal dialogue is constant comparisons.\u00a0 You walk into a room and think, \u201cwho is the thinnest, what did she eat, what did I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,33],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ed-voice","tag-identity","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeinthemess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}