I don't really like them, the meme ones are usually full of shitty reposts or posts using the same templates. I see a lot of encouragement for "all in recovery" and how you just need to "honour extreme hunger" to get better which are two things I've always been sceptical of. I also find it tiresome how many posts are just people whining about seeing something they disliked on social media. Its not all bad as sometimes there will be genuinely insightful or interesting posts but I roll my eyes more often than I'd like to whenever I end up checking an ed sub

So uh yeah that turned into a rant... I guess I really don't like reddit

 

all in sounds like a. Recipe for BED tbh

 

i just checked them out, since i haven’t looked at them before, and i found a post on r/edrecoverysnark about fiona hollings that actually seemed really supportive. some of the posts on that subreddit can come across as judgmental tho, imo. r/edanonymous just seems like another ed forum, like this one. r/edanonymemes just amuses me.

 

They're really dead / slow

 

i still lurk but they do strike me as the door-knocking evangelicals of the ed world. "can i get a moment to talk to you about recovery? recovery? did i mention recovery? fun fact: you're dying. this is groundbreaking news and i am aware you've not been informed yet. just catching you up, really. so, about recovery..."

it'll also never sit right with me how they turn eating junk food into something to celebrate and praise. like no i'm not gonna feel happy for you and pretend you've done a good thing.

 

fun fact: you're dying. this is groundbreaking news and i am aware you've not been informed yet. just catching you up, really. so, about recovery..."

Its tiresome how often you see people say that on those subs, it just comes across as condescending and in many cases alarmist to me. Oh and don't forget that healthy eating in recovery is literally orthorexia so you're not doing it right unless you're bingeing on doughnuts twice a day

 

In my first and worst ED round back in 2020, I was unable to make an account on this website (it just never confirmed my account) so I had to resort to those subreddits to interact with ED communities (and edtwt for a short while, but we don't talk about that....)

I liked them honestly, it was a nice time. I made posts often. At the time I was at my lw and my mom was seriously worried, and I was miserable. I learned about all-in recovery through r/EDanonymous. I looked more into it, and after a while I decided to take the leap. It was hard, but ultimately it worked, I got to a healthy bmi (my health weight), lost interest in food, and was finally able to get my life back.
During my refeeding stage I posted my progress on the subreddit, I was very happy and everyone cheered me on.

The problem was that I was not followed by any professional and did it all on my own, and that made me not fully recover without realizing. While my body and conscious state were recovered, my subconscious wasn't and I kept one or two behaviors (namely bodychecking), which, after 1 year of being healthy and thinking I was fully recovered, caused me a relapse.

Having done it thanks to the subreddit, I do believe in all-in recovery, but not all by oneself. Anyone who tries it still needs a support system. Had I had one I think I wouldn't be here right now.

 

They are so hateful and nasty I think they are upset w their own weight gain 🤭 they need therapy not a subreddit 🤷‍♀️ I mean this site is fucked up too but I think the subreddits are way more toxic

 

i don't like them that much, considering they bash this site and other ones and constantly complain about what people do.

i know they depise edtwt but as someone who was on there for awhile, it isn't that bad if you curate a safe space for you. however, it's gone downhill since so like, the dislike of it makes sense but bashing people's safe places if they're not doing anything harmful is weird.

also, the memes they steal from edtwt makes it
funnier and they're kinda like "well you need to recover so you won't die!" and i get that we're pro-recovery (as am i) but like, that's what some people want? and it's sad to think about but it's true.

overall, they're okay, but very annoying.

 

I haven't been a Redditcuck in at least 3 years but from what I remember it was a very positive albeit extremely dull space for people who wanted a completely sanitized ED community. While it's not my cup of tea (too heavily moderated, like 0 adults, and the same posts every day all the time, etc) I have to say that controlled ED spaces with 0 tolerance towards EDtwt-esque behaviour are 100% necessary. Some people need that kind of squeaky clean environment to express their ED

 

I tried posting there before i joined here because I felt myself slipping into anorexia and wanted to not get worse, but I felt extremely unwelcome. I don‘t fit the stereotype of an anorexic person/journey/whatever, and they made it obvious that someone like me was not wanted there. I saw quite a bit of transphobia/controversy from the day and a half I was there, which completely scared me off. So now im here, not trying to recover anymore :/

However, the ARFID community on reddit and the other mental health subs (sh, etc) are really nice, in my opinion!

 

Too tame and judgemental.

 

idk but it's reddit so I hate them