Re: Stigma-ed by IBS, eating disordered label
08/13/04 11:52 AM
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melitami
Reged: 02/23/04
Posts: 1213
Loc: Ewing, NJ, USA (IBS-D, Vegetarian)
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I'm only 21, but I'm also a very small person, so people assume I have an eating disorder. It was really hard my senior year of high school when I developed IBS and didn't want to eat, or couldn't eat certain things, and people began to think I was anorexic. It's actually gotten better since I've been in college, I have very supportive friends, and my parents understand more now that my mom and my youngest brother (he's 15) have developed IBS in the past year. It used to be that my mom would never understand what I could and couldn't eat, and would have family gatherings with food I couldn't eat, then yell at me for not eating. Now she understands and it's much better.
But I completely commiserate on the eating disorder accusation, though it was never a doctor. *hugs*
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Melissa
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