Comments on: Nothing more than ordinary http://www.greythinking.com/2009/10/17/nothing-more-than-ordinary/ "being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things." - christina, grey's anatomy Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:26:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Angela http://www.greythinking.com/2009/10/17/nothing-more-than-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Angela Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:11:49 +0000 http://greythinking.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-541 I can really relate to those feelings of not wanting to be ordinary. To be special, and to stand out in some way, and of course the ED would like to trick you into believing that being extraordinarily thin will do just that. Being the best at being thin was always something that I knew that I could do well, and I held a certain pride in that, which is embarrassing to admit. Anyway, I enjoyed this post. Take care:) I can really relate to those feelings of not wanting to be ordinary. To be special, and to stand out in some way, and of course the ED would like to trick you into believing that being extraordinarily thin will do just that. Being the best at being thin was always something that I knew that I could do well, and I held a certain pride in that, which is embarrassing to admit. Anyway, I enjoyed this post.
Take care:)

]]> By: Now is Now http://www.greythinking.com/2009/10/17/nothing-more-than-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Now is Now Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:11:22 +0000 http://greythinking.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-540 I love this post. REally thought provoking. Thank you. I love this post. REally thought provoking. Thank you.

]]> By: BL http://www.greythinking.com/2009/10/17/nothing-more-than-ordinary/comment-page-1/#comment-539 BL Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:16:22 +0000 http://greythinking.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-539 What a great post!! I can relate to every word you say. I feel like in high school and undergrad, I did so many activities and other things that made me unique. At the same time, I was really entrenched in my eating disorder, and the combination of the two led me to basically burn out this year. Now I am taking time off from school to focus on recovery, and I feel not ordinary, but like a failure. I have friends and other supports telling me to focus on recovery so that I can get back to my "normal life", but I think part of the problem is that I don't feel ok with having a "normal" life. I want to be doing extraordinary things. Having just gotten out of inpatient, I am overwhelmed right now with what to do with the rest of my year off because I feel like I have to make it extraordinary. Rather then simply focus on getting better, I feel like I have to find an amazing job or opportunity. I used to tell my high school therapist that I wanted to "be skinny to be special." I think you hit it right on though when you said that being eating disordered doesn't make you special, it just makes you sick. And while that may make you not ordinary, it does rob you of the chance to do anything else extraordinary. The truth is though, that everyone is extraordinary in their own way (I know that sounds so cliche, but it is true). I think we don't give ourselves enough credit for the little things that make us unique (and thus unordinary) - you having this wonderful blog is a perfect example of something that I think is unordinary about you. I bet if you asked around, you would find that most people think that you are an extraordinary person, even if you don't feel like it :-) What a great post!! I can relate to every word you say. I feel like in high school and undergrad, I did so many activities and other things that made me unique. At the same time, I was really entrenched in my eating disorder, and the combination of the two led me to basically burn out this year. Now I am taking time off from school to focus on recovery, and I feel not ordinary, but like a failure. I have friends and other supports telling me to focus on recovery so that I can get back to my “normal life”, but I think part of the problem is that I don’t feel ok with having a “normal” life. I want to be doing extraordinary things. Having just gotten out of inpatient, I am overwhelmed right now with what to do with the rest of my year off because I feel like I have to make it extraordinary. Rather then simply focus on getting better, I feel like I have to find an amazing job or opportunity.

I used to tell my high school therapist that I wanted to “be skinny to be special.” I think you hit it right on though when you said that being eating disordered doesn’t make you special, it just makes you sick. And while that may make you not ordinary, it does rob you of the chance to do anything else extraordinary.

The truth is though, that everyone is extraordinary in their own way (I know that sounds so cliche, but it is true). I think we don’t give ourselves enough credit for the little things that make us unique (and thus unordinary) – you having this wonderful blog is a perfect example of something that I think is unordinary about you. I bet if you asked around, you would find that most people think that you are an extraordinary person, even if you don’t feel like it :-)

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