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Binge eating disorder and what actually changed

Started 9 June 2026 · 14 replies · 90 hearts · read 1.4k times

SableCape Town, ZA · 9 June 2026
1 month ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Binge eating disorder and what actually changed

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

I have told nobody in my life about this part of it, which after two years is starting to seem like the problem rather than a way of managing it.

What I want is company rather than an answer, and I have learned that this circle is one of the few places where asking for that is not strange.

Thanks. Saying it here first has made the idea of saying it to somebody else considerably less impossible.

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OsricSalisbury, UK
#1

My experience is that this circle moves slowly and carefully and that is exactly what I needed from it.

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BroganCumbernauld, UK
#2

Sable, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

I would encourage anybody unsure to read the agreements first. They are clear, they are enforced, and they told me whether this was somewhere I could be.

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GwionBangor, UK
#3

Osric, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

I have found it useful to write about how I am rather than what I have done. The distinction is small and it changes what I notice.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#4

Facilitator note: the agreements for this circle are stricter than the sitewide ones and they are stricter on purpose. They are linked from the circle landing page.

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SadieSalford, UK
#5

Somebody here said that recovery is not a straight line and nobody in this circle expects it to be, and I read that on a very bad evening.

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RunaAarhus, DK
#6

The absence of comparison in this circle is the reason I stayed. Everywhere else I found, people were measuring themselves against each other.

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OrlaithDonegal, IE
#7

What I would say is that a support community is not treatment. This is company alongside the people who actually know my history.

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RenataKraków, PL
#8

No advice, only that you are not the only one who found this part hard.

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BramwellNottingham, UK
#9

I came here because everywhere else assumed a relationship with eating that I do not have, and the assumptions themselves were difficult.

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QuinGuildford, UK
#10

What I needed was people who understood why certain kinds of conversation are hard, without me having to explain it every time.

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PádraigGalway, IE
#11

Building on what Bramwell wrote rather than answering the original question.

My history meant a lot of the standard guidance was not appropriate for me, and having a team who knew that was what made this possible at all.

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OllieCardiff, UK
#12

Grateful you posted rather than kept it to yourself.

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JonahFacilitatorCork, Ireland
#13

Thank you for saying the hard part. It makes it easier for the next person, which is most of how this community actually works.

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SableCape Town, ZA
#14

Jonah, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

Something I have had to be careful about is how much time I spend reading. There is a version of research that is not research and I know mine.

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