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Self-involved

posted 8 years ago by OriolesRox
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I have had some pretty horrible things happen to me and have struggled with my weight my entire life. Yes I have had eating disorders and consider myself a food addict. That being said, these people always blame someone or something and it is infuriating! i run 3 miles 4 or 5 times a week and monitor what I eat to prevent being obese. I will never be thin but I work at keeping from being obese. I could easily blame lots of things/people and play the victim. A lot of this behavior is so self-centered and babyish it's becoming hard for me to root for these people!

[–] miss_kitae-971-650846 8 years ago

I have binge eating disorder because that's how I chose to cope. I chose to self-medicate with food the way an alcoholic chose to keep drinking after that first time, the way a cutter decides to start and continue to cut.

We make the decision in the moment we take on our addiction. Nobody else puts the blade in your hand, the bottle to your lips, the cigarette in your mouth.

I don't make excuses or blame other people; this is how I decided to deal with my shiz.

[–] OriolesRox 8 years ago

Exactly! Many of these people expect family to drop everything and help them when you know they ended up this way at their own hands! I find it hard to sympathize with grown people blaming someone else for their issues!!

[–] Karma-For-You 8 years ago

I've been watching this show for a while and all I hear from most of the people on the show is "me, me, me, me, me" and "I", "I", "I", "I", "I". No thought to anyone beyond themselves. Not all of them are like this, but the majority are. It's tiring.

[–] ZGlass 8 years ago

I mean, it's behavior very typical of addicts. I also think a lot of them are emotionally stunted from whatever they've been through.

[–] liscarkat (18373) 5 years ago

No! It's a disease! They're victims!