This really made me feel bad. What do I do?

Question

I recognized my problem at being anorexic. I am currently trying to recover and have gained 6 pounds over the past month. I felt like I was doing really really good. Some people were telling me I looked better and healthier, but of course some still nagged on me for being to skinny. But i try not to listen to people and just move on. well, today someone (idk who it was) called my brothers phone asking for me. So he gave it to me and I answered. They were all "are you s**y?" so since I didn't know who it was, I joked around and was all "oh yeah! haha very s**y" And they were like, "naw your to skinny!" and just gave me a ton of **** and laterally yelled at me for like 5 minutes before I hung up. It really hurt. & It made me super depressed and just want to give up on all this. What do i do? I finally was feeling good about myself. Now that I pretty much feel like **** all over again.

Answer 1

Ok first of all, well done on gaining weight. Gaining 6 pounds in one month is a really great accomplishment. Keep going and don't give up!

The people who were nagging you for being too skinny, you were right to ignore them. I've faced this problem before; when you're trying to recover from something and people expect a miraculous change overnight. Things do take time and you were doing so well.

These people who were talking to you over the phone, please ignore them like you ignored those other people. They got a kick out of lowering your confidence and making you feel like nothing, but what they said were lies. Yes you were skinny, but you're working on it and you were doing so well! Please don't give up. You've gotten so far already which proves you have the strength to go on.

Remember getting over problems like these takes a lot of time and effort. And there are always people out there who are going to try and put you down. You just have to ignore them and be strong. And not give up.

If you need people to talk to about anorexia or depression, you could visit http://www.dailystrength.org

It's a very helpful support community full of people facing all sorts of problems, and it helped me greatly when I was tackling depression myself.

Good luck.