I made a point of telling nurses I needed to be weighed with my back to the scale every time I was weighed at the doctor (well, minus when I was pregnant, at which time I managed to let go of this stuff far better than I thought) for at least 15 years. I still do it most of the time.

Yes! I was also excited about the cast, and the dark humor. It was just so hateful.

Hugs back at you. For me, it’s that the depression and anxiety turn into knots in my stomach, so I feel uncomfortably full on normal amounts of food, and I make myself throw up. Or I try to treat myself with something - and I throw it up. The nervous stomach I always had just turned into something so much more.

That was absolutely how I felt. Shit, that’s how “thinspo” on pro-ana/mia boards worked! Ugh.

I am pregnant (also: ED + pregnancy is complicated stuff!) with a little girl due in September. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how I am going to talk about myself in front of her and how I’ll talk to her about her body as well so she doesn’t feel like she needs to feel like garbage about her body just…

Women in their sixties are often the worst, because they were women in their 20s and 30s in the 70s and 80s when this shit really ramped up. My mom will talk to me about how little she eats in the day and I literally respond, “That’s nice, but I don’t care.” (She doesn’t know I had an ED, because if I told her, I…

Back when I still had cable, I had to avoid television in January to keep from relapsing - every other ad was telling you about needing to diet to take off that holiday weight, and it was triggering as fuck.

Just having the super-skinny but still pretty girl at the center! Whenever I watch these movies I felt (feel) like, “Ugh, I don’t really have a problem, I don’t look like that, maybe I should ‘try harder.’” I’m avoiding this like the plague.

Yes! I went on antidepressants for my depression and anxiety while I was deep in the throes of it, and finding the right antidepressant was a complete and total game-changer. One didn’t really help, the second made me not as depressed and self-flagellating about my behavior, but didn’t make it the slightest bit…

Thanks! Even if someone does develop it as a teenager, it’s not like it doesn’t follow you around for, well, often the rest of your life to some degree or another. I feel like constantly treating it as a “teenager’s illness” ends up making the women who have it feel like there’s yet another thing wrong with them -…

Ah, it was a different one! But the one you linked is a good one. I was thinking of this one

I know the review mentions that there is a woman who is fat and bulimic, but I really do wish ED stories wouldn’t seemingly always focus on the story of a woman who gets unhealthily thin, then gets help. I feel like it almost implies that, if you’re not below your healthy BMI range, you’re not really that sick (and,…

That movie *horrified* me - I was probably 21 or 22 when I saw it, and I was so deeply offended by the idea that this guy was fucking a woman, accidentally impaled her head on a coat hook and killed her, and then she was treated as so disposable - the way it was handled made it come off as one of the most misogynist…

Rough Night looks like it has a premise similar to Very Bad Things (which I hated).

I would murder that dude. I VERY rarely come during intercourse. I come early and often from head (and even handjobs if someone is particularly skilled), but, yeah, it’s probably not going to happen that way.

Is that the episode where Miranda gave up sex and couldn’t stop eating cake? Because that episode was me back when I originally saw it. I may have used the “put dish liquid on the cake so you don’t eat it out of the garbage” thing.

I kind of want to watch it again because I can’t remember what the Joan Cusack/Chris O’Donnell relationship actually was, and I was looking at it from the younger perspective (which tends, of course, to be okay with relationships with older people). Was it creepy? Was it not-like-that? (e.g., he had a crush, and she…

I posted this in its own thread, but my immediate response was

OMG, starred for Men Don’t Leave. My mom and I watched that movie so many times back in the day. I was in my early teens and so jazzed about Chris O’Donnell’s Morrissey shirt.