Have you been cured from your eating disorder?

For those of you with Binging problems, how do you recover? Can you do it on your own? I need help and want to try and do it on my own cuz I don't have time to do an inpatient program. How did you recover?

WOW. kaliluna, I think you might have said something that triggered something in me! I think I know what you mean!!! The starving feeling...i was abanodoned when I was little and i think it's the urge to take care of myself and food makes me feel like I'm fulfilling something that I was "deprived" of! woah!! what a revelation!!

I was a binger for many years. I can honestly say that I haven't binged in probably about a year, which is amazing for me. What worked for me is that I started working on why I wanted to binge, what was my motivation. Part of it was that I felt like I was being starved if I didn't binge (this is a childhood issue of mine) so I had to start telling myself things like "there is plenty of food, I can go back for more." Also it was a coping skill to help me feel better. I had to determine the feeling that I got when I wanted to binge and what that feeling really meant and how to handle it in a different way. Once I started getting healthier emotionally (with the help of a therapist and family) I realized that I don't have to binge anymore, and in fact I feel horrible physically when I do it. But once in a while I still feel that urge, I just know that I have other choices I can make besides that that will make me feel better.

I dont have it.. I am probly too skinny. But when you want to eat, eat like a jolly rancher or sumthin or go outside to get your mind off of it!! :)

you can recover but it takes a long time and you have to learn to live with yourself however big or smallyou get my weight goes up and down liek a yo yo but i had professional help.
he fear of death also helped....
you cant really do it on ur own depends how seere it is but if you wanna get better you can do but like anything you got to want to quit!!
Good Luck

I was never a binge eater but I was anorexic. It took awhile but I overcame it. I still exercise alot and I'm very health conscious
about what I eat. I do indulge in desert now. It never completely goes away. I'm really skinny and I still think I'm fat but at least I don't do anything about it. Well, I exercise and stuff. I have body dimorphic disorder (I don't see myself realistically). You can overcome it, it just takes will power and the determination to change. Good luck:)

I was never into binging, just extremely emaciated. Regardless, I was sick. My behaviors have been abolished, but still, my thinking is a little skewed. My weight has been restored and I am no longer on my deathbed. You really have to want to live. If you want recovery, then why don't you have time for an IP program? Is life not important enough? Do you go to therapy? Sometimes, we cannot do EVERYTHING on our own, but I know several people who have been able to kick the disordered patterns on their own--that's wonderful, but definitely challenging.