T1ED General Chat Thread

Is your neuropathy as a result of diabulimia, as described in the first post:

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Or another eating disorder? Bearing in mind this is a discussion in the eating disorders and diabetes sub forum. That's what the ED in the thread title stands for.

 

ED, some at a first glance, may see it as, Erectile Dysfunction( and not seeing the eating disorders and diabetes) ? I didn't now ED was an abbreviation for - Eating Disorder, but thankfully I have never suffered from an eating disorder, but I know it does happen

 

I also read it as Erectile Dysfunction even though I know Eating Disorder is also abbreviated to ED.

@asortafairytale Perhaps you don't realise that most forum users use the "new posts" or "recent posts" pages to navigate to a thread they may be interested in rather than from the list of different forums. Your ED threads appear on these pages, so most just look at the highlighted thread title irrespective of which forum it was posted in. I have to say the thread title isn't clear.

I hope you don't mind me pointing this out. It is not meant to be a criticism.

 

I have run foul of this as I only use the "Recent Posts", and I posted in one of the OP threads and got into troubles with what I posted.

ED stands for Erectile Dysfunction as far as I'm concerned.

Perhaps the eating disorder section can be a subscription area (segregated) only where you join up to post and read the threads, but remains hidden from the main forum. This way no ones feelings get bruised by comments made.

 

Rather than a segregated area, prefixes might help @Tipetoo For this forum and any others where it would be useful

 

I will be interested to see what the @Administrator (s) do in this case then.

 

I think segregation of an eating disorder thread only makes it seem more secretive and shameful. People with eating disorders often struggle to share, having threads openly visible shows that the forum recognises the issues and aims to support. An unambiguous prefix would help - I also assumed sexual issues until I saw the name of the OP.

 

"Eating Disorders" springs to mind as it is the correct term by not hiding under a comfort blanket.

 

How short does it need to be? Eating disorders is clear but you say too long.
Insulin avoidance?
Diabulemia?
The main thing is that people affected can find it.

 

I have amended the title of your thread to reflect the specific area of Diabetes concerned as the above posts have caused some confusion.

 

I think there is sometimes confusion with these DWED threads. There are many types of eating disorders so the title 'Eating disorders and diabetes' doesn't always express to every individual poster on this large forum what DWED really means. It's a tough one to express in a title really. For example, a lot of T2s who are obese would consider they too have an eating disorder. They also are diabetic so could think these threads are for them, after all the threads do come up in the main recent posts list. I don't know the answer I'm afraid but it will be difficult to stop others posting while the threads are on this large open forum and keep coming up on the new/recent posts lists for all to see.

You guys at DWED do a great job btw ( I would have put a smiley face, but the emojis on this site are way too slow today )

Gosh that smiley worked - by typing it out lol!

 

How about, instead of putting DWED (which took me a while to work out) why not put the name of the actual eating disorder.

And, yes, @zand is completely correct, I consider that I had (and potentially could again have) an emotional and/or overeating, and pathological attachment to food disorder.

(Fifth attempt to post this) - and I've given up on the smileys