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Is eating ever really safe?

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I know this sounds silly, but i feel as if eating will never really be safe. I cannot eat without it turning into a binge. When you have been a compulsive overeater, can you ever go back? Or will every meal for the rest of your life be a challenge?
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Look at it like alcoholism, it will always be there, but one day will be managable.
Have you had any form of therapy, DBT or anything, it could help. Ask yur doc.
xx
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It will be safe. One day you hopefully can eat a meal and decide against purging. ED will try to make you purge and give you all kinds of reasons why you should do it but you will be stronger and tell him to shut up and you will keep the food in. The more you disobey ED the easier it will get.
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It can become safe when you start looking at food as nourishment, and abstaining from any sort of trigger food.

I recommend OA for this, really.
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I agree. OA all the way i say! I cannot begin to explain how it is changing my life. I dont believe the disease ever leaves us. It is always just below the service, but life can become managable with time. life is made up of ups and downs, but more downs are created when we turn to the food. Recovery is a slow and painful process. it takes time. you must keep strong to get to the light at the end of the tunnel
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