Comments on: Stealing from the holidays http://www.greythinking.com/2011/12/23/stealing_from_the_holidays/ "being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things." - christina, grey's anatomy Thu, 02 May 2013 23:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BL http://www.greythinking.com/2011/12/23/stealing_from_the_holidays/comment-page-1/#comment-2713 BL Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:00:12 +0000 http://www.greythinking.com/2011/12/23/948/#comment-2713 I was just thinking about this yesterday as my family and I sat down to our Christmas dinner. For everyone else, it was a meal they had been looking forward too, and they were equally excited for leftovers. For me, it was just another meal to obsess over. I tried hard to let the ED go for the day and just enjoy the food (and some alcohol), but I just couldn’t let it all go, and that really sucked.

I think that when everyone else is getting excited about food and stuff it really highlights just how much the ED takes away. That can be any time of year (ie summer BBQs are another example), but I do think it is especially pronounced around the holidays. And I know for me, feeling different just makes me more depressed, which fuels the ED, which fuels the depression etc. And that just sucks :-(

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