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would you rather be Mentally Normal or fat?

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Mitchy1nge · 01/02/2015 23:18

oi

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 21:25

Knitting and watching tv about excluded people and not crying about the current fatness, which does not usually bother me but right now does

Millie2013 · 03/02/2015 21:25

I'm in bed (I'm always in bed, well not akways, but I'm always knackered by single parenting by 8pm)
I loved the stripy thermal top btw!!

Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 21:26

I'm snuggled on the sofa with DP watching a crap programme about the House of Commons. I think it'll be bed time soon. Might have a bath before bed.

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Ivytheterrible · 03/02/2015 21:38

Bed time for me. I need to go to my safe place. Did anyone hear from Enpo? It's been ages...

CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 21:43

I've sent her a pm and haven't heard from her via that or on here

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 21:47

I think it must have been the weekend when I last saw her on here

she definitely died of the super bowl :(

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itsbetterthanabox · 03/02/2015 21:50

What a horrible thread title.
Having mental health problems is a daily struggle.
Being 'fat' is a body type that can be perfectly fine. It is not a daily hell that means you don't feel happy and at peace.
They are completely different and non-comparable.
I'd rather be mentally healthy over looking any kind of particular way. Being 'hot' doesn't make you happy.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 21:54

itsbetter it's a title that came from the conversations through the thread before this and the one before that and that sort of thing.
If you flick though or rtft it might all fit into place Grin

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 21:54

I concede it's not the best thread title we've ever had

but actually a daily hell that means you don't feel happy and at peace is (flash of insight here) a really good description of me and my war on my own fat

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SnowyMouse · 03/02/2015 21:55

I'm sort of in bed.

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 21:57

and the worst of it is that am still Quite Fat

is not like my BMI is 12 or something

is like that saying about how it would be ok to suffer like Virginia Woolf if one didn't write such banal shit but produced something of literary merit like her instead

I just get all the suffering and none of the achievements Grin

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 21:58

I nearly commented on the daily hell bit, but some days I burn 20000000000 calories and it doesn't feel like such a hell then.

I'm going to bed to knit because I'm so cool.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 21:59

If it was 12 wouldn't you be on a feeding tube or dead?

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 22:04

I don't know chap? I doubt it, fat on other people's bodies doesn't bother me in the least although I do have a bit of a ritual of watching stuff about the super morbidly truly obese, the 500lb+

I think there is a lot of common ground between anyone who abuses food to be honest, but am not always like this. Was as a teenager, then again mid-twenties and then recently but am really coming out the other side I think.

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 22:06

below 12 is meant to be incompatible with life isn't it

probably wouldn't last long

is horrible to imagine

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 22:15

I find it bizarre that I functioned so well at 15. It still holds a hideous appeal and I have to remind myself how I fainted all the time and couldn't hold a conversation Confused
12 is unimaginable but then lots of it is dependent on muscles and funny weights so I guess it might be possible?

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 22:18

At 5st I would have a bmi of 12. That's much more than I would have expected. I guess 3 to begin with.

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 22:29

mine would be 12.4 at 5st

I was a bit heavier than that, but not much, in my mid twenties when my employers made me get some help and weirdly within about a year I was out of the whole mindset (sort of, I think I still purged meals sometimes, actually that was when I first ever did purging, when I was 'getting better' Hmm)

imagine my despair after a few years on chlorpromazine when I realised I, too, was a fat person (actually there wasn't much despair, the beauty of chlorpromazine is not having to give a fuck)

no chap, am not like that I hope, my loathing is pretty much all for myself

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Millie2013 · 04/02/2015 07:13

How is it morning already?

I don't know what my BMI is, I refuse to weigh myself and I've been lots happier since I stopped weighing myself :) I can recommend it

I hope Enpo is ok :/

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Mitchy1nge · 04/02/2015 08:02

I hope she is ok too

(how did you stop weighing yourself?)

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/02/2015 09:42

My BMI is a telephone number, I think. I don't dare weigh myself or work it out.

Sorry I buggered off yesterday - I realised that you all knew eachother from previous threads, and started worrying that I had blundered into somewhere I wasn't supposed to be.

But I like the look of you lot - please can me and my depression stay, if we promise to sit quietly in the corner and not say anything too stupid?

Millie2013 · 04/02/2015 09:56

Of course you can stay :) And saying daft things occasionally is essential to the thread