My Eating Disorder Is Eating Me

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

1. My Eating Disorder Is Eating Me

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."1

A Daily Encounter reader writes: "I need help. My eating disorder is eating me. I have tried to give it to God, but I am not sure if I have wholeheartedly done this. I want to stop but I am hooked on the skinniness thing."

When under- or over-eating is an addictive behavior, it can be a serious problem. Seeing what the cause of the problem is may be the hardest thing to come to terms with. With all addictions the problem we see—the presenting problem—is usually just the symptom of the real problem—"the fruit of a deeper root."

While symptoms need to be treated, it is critical that the root cause/s are treated and resolved. If only the symptom is treated, the root will pop out in another area. I know of one man who claimed he was healed of alcoholism the moment he became a Christian. In reality all he had done was change from being an alcoholic into an anger-aholic!

The bottom line in many, if not most, addictions is that somewhere in the past, mostly in early childhood, there has been a failure somewhere in love. The addictive behavior is used to medicate and not feel the pain of one's inner hurt of not feeling adequately loved. Besides asking for God's help and praying for deliverance, we need to do our part as well. As we get damaged in damaging relationships we get healed in healing relationships. This is why support groups such as twelve-step programs can be very effective, and why working with a skilled counselor or therapist may be needed and even critical.

As alcoholics need to be in an alcoholic-anonymous support group, food-aholics need to be in an overeaters anonymous group (and so on), where they can be loved and accepted for whom they are. As it is a failure in love that drives people into addictive behaviors, it is unconditional love that is one of the greatest healing agents to deliver one from addictive behaviors. When people feel genuinely loved and accepted, the need to "act out" in self-destructive addictive behaviors is greatly lessened.

A support group also helps the addict to keep accountable for his behavior, for it is only as he stops his addictive behavior and feels the real pain of his hurt or rejection, can he face and resolve the root cause of his problem.

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, thank you that you love and accept me just as I am ... even with my addictive behaviors. Thank you, too, that you love me too much to leave me as I am. I admit my problem of _________ (name it). Please give me the courage to face the root cause of my problem, and lead me to the help I need to overcome. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus' name, amen."

NOTE: For recovery resources click on (in English): http://www.actsweb.org/counseling_resources.php

1. Hebrews 12:1 (NIV).

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Who Needs Antidepressants?

Antidepressants are sold in millions in the US and the UK and the most popular Prozac, was reported to be the world's fastest-selling drug until Viagra became the most wanted drug in the US and Western European countries.

They need more Viagra for more sex, because millions of ignorant people use sex as an antidepressant.

The fact that Prozac and Viagra are the fastest-selling drugs in the Western world is enough evidence of the prevalence of ignorance among millions of Americans and Western Europeans who are being exploited by the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing these drugs to supply them to the millions of victims of the medical lies they have been fabricating for decades.

Now here is the breaking news: Antidepressant drugs don't work! and this is official.

The happiest people in the world don't use antidepressants.
We don't use antidepressants in Nigeria and most of the African countries. We don't need them to overcome depression, because we have better and more practical treatments.

Yes, stimulants and intoxicants work, but antidepressants don't work. Therefore, you do not need antidepressants for the treatment of anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, etc.

I have always known that antidepressants were mere "make-believe" products of medical spin. The so called "mood brighteners", "joy capsules" or "happiness pills" are simply escapist drugs meant to only give the consumers lucid intervals and sooner or later, they get hooked like junkies. The more junkies hooked on these "fake" drugs, the more millions of dollars the pharmaceutical companies are making daily.

Flush the Prozac, Seroxat and the other SSRIs down the toilet and kiss Eli Lilly goodbye for good.

The following treatments have been found to be the best solutions to your depression or moody blues, because they work.

* Exercise: Helps some people with depression. Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", said running helped him cope with depression.

* Friends: Talking through your feelings can help in mild depression with a friend or relative or in a self-help group.

* Cognitive behavioural therapy: Teaches you to challenge negative thoughts and feelings of hopelessness.

* Interpersonal therapy: Focuses on relationships and problems such as difficulties with communication.

* Counselling: Helps you think about the problems in your life and find new ways of dealing with them.

I hardly take pills and my daily drug is drinking three cups of water before breakfast and positive thinking.

I live and work for justice, love and peace.

Good doses of Positive Thoughts are the best antidepressants.

Cheers and God bless you as you learn to live positively everyday and night.