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grief and depression
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grief and depression
by angelgirl107, Oct 28, 2009 06:12PM
I am in a deep depression and am also dealing with a lot of grief after lossing 2 special people in my life within 8 days of each other. Once they both passed away the eating disorder became a lot more intense with some new behaviors. I feel like I don't want to deal with the eating disorder at this time because I feel that I need to deal with my losses and I think that my only control in my life is having the eating disorder with me because that is what I can turn to when things get to be to emotional with the grief and depression. I feel like I need to work through the grief before I can work on the eating disorder. I dont' believe that I can do both at the same time and sometimes I feel like having the eating disorder keeps me going because it gives me something else to focus on other than losing the girls. It's the only thing that I have control over and it gives me something else to focus on other than my losses. Do you think that I need to work on both issues at the same time or deal with one and then tackle the other one which is what I bleieve that I need to do and my main concern is the grieving.
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