Hmmm...how to change/reprogram?
1. There is always the therapy thing. That really doesn't help long-term, though and certainly not on its own.
2. Drugs. Yes, these help. The anorexia thing is totally obsessive and causes such psychic anxiety. I take Buspar and WOW what a difference.
3. Focus on the positive side of being food obsessed--become ORTHOREXIC, or a health nut. Get passionate about a cause related to food or cooking or exercise/fitness, politics, animal rights, poverty, the environment. It's a shift in focus. Choose exercise that is grounding, i.e. yoga, swimming--gentle stuff, stuff that's good for the nerves. For awhile, I volunteered at a soup kitchen. That really really helped me alot. Play Eleanor Roosevelt.
4. Meditate.
That's all I can think of at the moment. This is what's helped me. The in-patient program only got me to a level of physical health.
Kate, IBS-D--nearly "stable."
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