AnoKaskade
This is a personal blog about anorexia.
4. apr. 2025
I want to be natural.
2. apr. 2025
Rejection. Humiliation.
Fear of rejection is part of an ED, but don't forget fear of humiliation that goes hand in hand with it.
From humiliation comes anger, but to take it out on the one(s) who humiliated us is fruitless so where do we direct it? The body that also was a part of why the humiliation happened in the first place. We can not control other people, but we can try to prevent it from happening again. Hence making us look child-like, innocent, pretty or cool so people will less likely think of attacking us again. Every time I felt humiliated I looked at myself from the outside and I saw what I felt; big. Humiliation feels like exposure, enlarged under a magnifying glass and scrutinised. We don't want this humiliation to happen again. We also want to heal from the experiences, but we don't know how to do any of those things so we reduce our own body. We simply don't know better and those who were suppose to take care of us did not either.
I can give you two examples from my own life. My dad left me when I was 10 and when he came back to see me 6 years later he just stood in the other end of the living room and looked at me. He did not come to hug me and said nothing. Just looked at me for a long time. It was uncomfortable. I felt exposed. Then he said: You have grown. He did not look happy. I thought he was unhappy with how my body had turned out. I felt rejected. He did not come closer, he said nothing more. Yes, so I felt humiliated, exposed, scrutinised. (My dad was a weird man. He never hugged me, held me, I never got to hold his hand even when I asked him to. My mum never touched me either. Not even when I had hurt myself did she try to calm me down by touching me a little. )
Another time I felt humiliated was when a 44 year old man exposed himself to me when I was 16. He had sat his chair into the hallway where he knew I would come before bedtime so I could see him when I passed by. There he sat with an open dressing gown and his hand on his penis, sleeping. I thought God was behind this, showing me myself from the outside, so when I went into the bathroom and saw myself in the mirror I saw a fat pig there instead.
That is when I started restricting food. First pig meat. The woman in the house thought I was dieting when I said I didn't want the pork dinner she served me and suggested I avoided bread with cheese instead. So I did. And thought I should go on a restrictive diet since she thought I was dieting. She would never think that unless I needed it, I thought.
19. nov. 2024
Too hard to accept reality
29. okt. 2024
What is your top priority in life?
I have been a religious person for very long and my anorexia has been both holy and wordly. Earlier my ideal was to serve others every second of day and night and never pay attention to myself while reality was the complete opposite, because I did not accept that my body, which I called I, had needs. I was very unhappy for living so far from my ideal. I blamed my body for it because it did not have the energy to help me serve and took so much attention as it was always hungry and tired or sleepy. I understood one day it was very unrealistic to expect to live life at earth as if it was heaven, literally, and to believe I could manipulate the body to have no needs.
Lately I realised I am surprisingly selfish. I understood this for real when I witnessed how I dealt with my son, now 18, when he didn't want to see or talk to me. To be rejected by my son has been the worst ever. I say rejected because I took it very personally. Because I suffered so deeply I first thought: Wow, I love him so deeply. Later I realised my love was selfish because I could not leave him alone like he wanted me to. I could not accept the rejection because I wanted to see him. To realise that I am so selfish made me depressed for a while. I felt like a prisoner of my own ego. I wanted to to love him on his terms, but my ego with its emotions did not allow it to happen. I understood to be selfless my ego had to be out of my mind. My life did not change much anyway. I just payed more attention to my husband. Then something happened.
I watched a Youtube video where a guy had been dead, come back to life at earth and said he had heard three important messages in heaven. One of them was: Just love! I needed to hear that because my love has been a selective one. I have not understood I must love absolutely all the time. I must be my true self which is always loving. God has already told me earlier that it is not the action itself that matters, it is the love that is shared through the actions, but I did not think that I should stop being selective with my love so that video was much needed. I have not put to love as my highest priority. I have put stupid things like eating a certain way and exercise as my top priority. Vanity as number one. My self as number one. I meditated today and understood what it means to love a body. It is not to like how it looks, but to listen to its needs, be careful with it, accept its needs, give it rest when it needs rest and enough food and the type of food it needs and so on.
9. okt. 2024
The essence of anorexia in a poem
24. sep. 2024
What can make me well from my ED?
Maybe I need something time consuming to perfect, little by little. To perfect being skinny must as we know end in death because perfectly skinny is the skinniest, is it not? The recent years I have tried to perfect being healthy more than to perfect being skinny, but it is nothing to write home about, you know. To accomplish something that helps people or improves the world slightly would be so much better. Healthy people focus on their work, trying to perfect it. At least those who have the perfectionistic personality as many with anorexia has. I did get into poetry and God for many years and after that taking care of a son. I was not too focused on food then. It was still a priority to be skinny, but it was not the most important thing in my life to think about. I just ate habitually. So do I just need something to focus on and perfect to get rid of my ED?
23. sep. 2024
Reverse dieting with updates
This ED is just fear based. When the fear is gone the ED is out the window with it. Before this happened, at the gym, something happened that can be related to the change of mindset, though. I had to cry and an image of my mum looking malicious came up. It was like she came up through my throat and I had to feel her on the way out of me. By seeing and feeling this evil aspect of her I felt so much better afterwards. Like relieved from the cause of my fear. She used to scorn me. Always hanging over my shoulder to look for something to criticise me for. It made me into a perfectionist, constantly stressed and afraid of criticism ever since. Seems like my ED is an evil spirit still alive and has made such a big impact on me she has become a part of me. Just like she harassed me in my childhood she harasses me in my adult life as a spirit within, making me just as unfree as when she hung over my shoulder in my young years. Well, that was up until now. She is out now. Earlier I thought medication is just bad and the pill industry is evil. It is not that black and white obviously. I said I will eat 1880 calories for three weeks to see if I gain from this increased amount or not. If I do I have decided I will not stop, but continue increasing to get well. Step by step to not get overwhelmed.
15 september 2024 My reverse diet continues: This week I have eaten 1900 calories on average! I dared to increase already after a week. I am little proud and a tiny bit scared, but I am hopeful. The monster (my internal mum) is out. I don't see the big danger in gaining a little anymore. Next week I will eat 1920 on average. Cause I am hungry for more. I weighed 52,4 yesterday (BMI 17,9) so no difference really as I have been weighing between 51,5 and 53 for a while now. Will continue weighing myself and see how this effects my weight.
I weighed 52,7 yesterday so I may or may not have gained any. Do not know before I weight more than 53 as my weight fluctuates between 51 and 53 all the time. I upped my calorie intake to 1920 last week from 1900 the one before. Felt kinda dizzy looking at the number, but I felt fueled up enough to start lifting weights that week, not just body weight, so in theory that extra fuel could go to the muscle tissue instead of the fat tissue.
I am just a tiny bit hungry for more than I eat now so I will increase my intake to 1940 this week. I want to feel strong and healthy as well as having energy to others. Just not have more body fat. Hopefully I manage to tweak this successfully. The minute I see I have gained I will go back to a little less unless I am convinced I gained muscle mass.
I went all in when I tried to recover earlier because reverse dieting became too difficult when I had starved for too long. Hard because I got very hungry when giving the body more. Now I acted right in time and I am so happy I did. This is exciting because I am so bored of being hungry. I may not ever stop counting calories, but at least I will function better now.