I’m not seeing my Dr until Thursday, so I’m hanging in here a bit trying not to binge eat. It’s got so bad that I don’t even know when I’m hungry – all I know is that I eat. Especially sweet stuff. And I get into this spiral of hating myself then I eat some more and hate myself… blah blah blah.
Admitting it to my GP scares me. It goes on my records, for a start. Along with my depression and all the associated stuff. And I am scared that she will judge me, as if anyone could judge me more harshly than I do myself! There’s a voice in my head telling me I’m greedy and disgusting, and it’s not an eating disorder, I’m just a vile pig. And so on. And it’s been there for years.
And I have to ask for help, which I find hard. How do I explain in the allotted 5 minutes that I am out of control? That it’s no longer about the weight, I don’t care what I fucking look like, I just want to feel comfortable in my own skin? I want to feel safe around food, not want to eat everything that passes in front of my face. That joke about ‘I’m on a sea food diet – I see food and I eat it’ hasn’t been funny for a long time, because that’s what my life is like.