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When your hip bones dig into the mattress...

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7.1K views 33 replies 24 participants last post by  LadyLinda420  
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This is my favorite sensation when I start losing weight again. Feeling that dull discomfort of my bones poking into the mattress.

What are your favorite feelings like this? I call them "warm hugs from my eating disorder" to my therapist, and she looks at me like I have three heads. But I feel like some of you might relate.
 
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When I'm starting to get down to a lowish weight my hipbones do the same thing, and it's uncomfortable to put my knees together.. like it hurts to rest my knees together??? I hope I'm making sense but ugh it hurts in a good way. I've always liked how it feels. If I want to legit get comfy and go to sleep, all I need to do is use an extra pillow.
 
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I used to hug my knees and rock back and forth a lot for comfort when I was distressed but now I can't as my tailbone acts like a 'doorstopper' and I can only tilt back a little before I am jolted to a stop mid rock from my tailbone >.<

And I can't do any situps or crunches without grinding my spine, shoulderblades and tailbone on the floor and getting bruises or skinning myself :(
 
#13 ·
When laying in bed, trying to get comfy, I always feel like my bones are too heavy for me because I'm a side-sleeper and if I have my arm resting on my side, my elbow will dig into my stomach just above my hip bone. And sometimes it hurts to have one leg on top because my knees are just knocking against each other
 
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I like the black sight and the feeling of nearly fainting, when I take something from the bottom of an rack in the supermarket and then straight up myself.

I've to prop myself with the fingertips on the shelf and wait, until I can see proper again and feel, that I won't tumble down.
 
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When you can't sit because it hurts
 
#22 ·
You guys like that feeling? Or is it just comforting to your ED thinking? I have hip bones that jut out a lot, so even though I'm still super fat, I get this sometimes and I can't say I enjoy it lol
 
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...People like this feeling? Jesus. I hate waking up from bruises from my mattress and not being able to sleep on my side without needing to find a leg position where my knees don't clunk against each other..

And I'm quite knock-kneed, my knees clash together when I walk and it fucking sucks. I don't notice it when my weight's higher or I have my usual 4 pairs of stockings on, but it hurts to go bare-legged.