I'm really not sure how to even start this, so I'll jump right in.
A few years ago when I was battling depression and severe anxiety and slowly got toward the end of my recovery journey, my psychiatrist gave me a really good bit of advice:
While it is important to recognize what you have experienced and struggled with in the past, it is even more important to move forward. Those things are in the past and you need to tell yourself that and see what kind of a difference it makes.
"I WAS the awkward, autistic kid who isolated herself from any kind of social interaction", instead of "I AM."
This little bit of advice really stuck with me and it's extremely helpful. The more you tell yourself that you're something, the harder it will be to prove yourself wrong. I found that for me, it also works for binge eating.
"I WAS the person who would eat the whole package of cookies as soon as I bought them home."
That's not me anymore. It was me, but that's in the past now.
This is obviously not some miracle cure, but it really helps. Try to apply it when not only talking to yourself, but also talking to others and I'm sure you'll see a difference in how that makes you feel. Our minds are really tricky and if you keep telling yourself that you're a binge eater who will eat the entire package of cookies if you're not careful, our mind has a way of proving us right.
I hope this helps someone, it's really just a bit of advice that I wanted to share with you guys as it helped me a lot especially recently and I can already tell a big difference in my attitude toward food and my own history with disordered eating.
Good luck to all of you on this journey, you've got this!
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