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Your triggers? (TW)

787 views 26 replies 25 participants last post by  coffeeXgrammar  
#1 ·
Tell your triggers. It can be a photo, video, person, movie book, etc. Anything that triggers you. Write a whole list if you need to. basically something that pushes and motivates you even more when you need it.
 
#7 ·
Seeing others collar bones and people telling me I've lost and I should stop now
 
#8 ·
My friend recently ended up in IP and keeps updating me, almost boasting how her weight is dropping what's her bmi and that she's threatened to be tubed.

This triggers me although I'm thinner
 
#19 ·
I'm usually really good with triggers, I don't get them often. But I DO have a few. Frankie from Lip Service = my total thinspo. Everytime I see a pic/clip of her my mind goes "WHY are you not that skinny you fat hoe, do you WANT to be ugly? Gross af."
Umm, my ex was insanely thin and though we're not on bad terms or anything, seeing her is like "holy hell why am I still so fat, she managed so why can't I". Mind you she's recovering and doing well with it so I should be happy for her.

Those are the main two, but sometimes its comments. Or family. Yesterday my father told me I need to start going to the gym again; not because of any weight gain, but just for the sake of proper heart health and circulation. I know he meant well, but holy crap that sent me for a spin.
 
#21 ·
Going to the gym and seeing the fit guys at the weight bars and flexing in front of the mirror wall, all testosterone and jacked up.
 
#24 ·
Losing weight.

My friends going on diets and cleanses.

People without EDs eating small portions or forgetting to eat. I feel like food is constantly on my mind. How can other people not be this painfully aware of it?
 
#25 ·
Anytime anyone jokes about starving or anorexia, anytime someone comments on my weight ('you're a fucking twig') or talks about someone else's weight loss and not mine. There's no winning, lol.
 
#26 ·
seeing other visibly anorexic people. it both gives me a sense of unity and empathy, but at the same time it disconcerts me and causes some uncontrollable drive to be 'as thin as' or thinner than them.. even if realistically I already am..

it's unfortunately similar when talking to a friend I was close to in hospital.. she's still in there and in a bad way, but she mentioned her target BMI once and that it's 'huge'.. and that's close to/ less than my current BMI. I was triggered a lot by her whilst we were there as she was so thin, and now we talk less because.. I think it's not good for either of us at the moment. she doesn't know that she sets me off further, but I guess we're both too caught up in it to have a less AN-dominated conversation currently..