"HIGH" SCHOOL

Only 2 year right now -.-

 

why are there two of the same threads, made by the same person, in the stoners lounge? Its whack i tells ya, whack! I say one should get deleted.

 

im currently in high school. i got one more year left.

 

Same.
9th grade- Went to school for a month. Hospitalized for a month and a half. Treatment center for a few months. They passed me. High Honor Roll. No work. (but I did take 1 summer school course that summer just to be ready for 10th...which you'll see was a waste)
10th grade- Went to school for a month. Hospitalized for a month. Treatment center for a week. No more school for the rest of the year. They passed me.
11th grade- Christian school for 3 months. (woohoo!) Health worsened. Dropped out. Homeschooled myself for the rest of the year. Pretty much kept up with curriculum.

Then I got my GED before my class even graduated. It's been 2.5 years, and this fall I plan on starting college and working towards a degree in nutrition and psychology. Eventually I'd like to work with individuals with eating disorders, especially binge-eating disorder and compulsive overeating.

 

if you dont mind me asking, why were you hospitalized?

 

^^^I was just about to ask the same thing.

 

^^^ 9th grade for anorexia. 10th grade for a drug overdose. Adolescence wasn't very fun.

 

I figured it was an eating disorder when I was reading the post. I'm guessing you're past that now, in which case, good for you.

I'm surprised I haven't been to the hospital or the morgue because of drug overdose. 74 xanax bars within a few hours should have done me in, and the 31 benadryls on multiple occasions should have finished me off too. I guess we should both be thankful as fuck.

 

That's a bad ass plan which I really respect. We need more folks like that to combat the overeating. In one of my classes there's this chick who is severely overweight. I mean huge. She was telling me she can't walk long distances or stand a long time because her ankles can't handle it. In most cases I have little sympathy for these people because you see them feeding the cycle. in a 75 minute class, she will eat 2-3 candy bars depending on the day. Sure somedays I'll have an apple or a bag of chips. But 2-3 candybars is more than anyone should eat in one day let alone 75 minutes.

 

I don't think I've had 3 candybars in the past year.

 

i have little sympothy for people like that. it's there fault for eating non-stop without getting help. only sympathy for the ones born like that.

 

Yeah some people jus have a low metabolism and can't help it. Also, some people are actually addicted to overeating and find it very hard to stop. Some people eat as a release from emotional pain. There all kinds of different reasons why a person may be overweight, and we shouldn't judge them, in any case. We all have our faults, some are just more obvious than others.

 

Call me up when you start that work! lol I've been tryin to shed these f'in pounds for 2 years but I can never stay on course (what iwth all the trips I take and such). Though I am very healthy (BP is 120/70 OH YEAH THAT'S RIGHT! lol) and athletic, just overweight.

 

Whooooooa nelly. Are you addicted to any drug (even if its a mental addiction to marijuana)? Addicted to sex? Addicted to anything? I mean eating can be very addicting. It releases endorphines which make you feel better and more satisfied. I think some people have more enorphines released than other people and that's why people are addicted to eating. Personally I used to be WAAAAY addicted to it. I mean my drive for food was larger than my drive for sex at points. I had a huge pleasure center for eating and I still do. But now it is a little more boring and I've found I'm kind of addicted to exercising (and drugs lol) which also releases endorphines and gives an energy rush. Even so I know another reason I am overweight is because my metabolism is slower than normal. I eat less than 1500 calories a day (recommended is 2000) now and burn at least 500 and I'm barely losing any fat weight. I net less than half the recommended calories, and that's not including the calories you burn from just being alive and doing shit.

 

You are very sweet, and quite intelligent. A lot of peeps would look down on us for smokin...to each his own, ya know?

 

Dank you, kyndly:spliff:

And yes, everyone is different so, of course, we're all gonna look different.....it'd be boring otherwise. Diff'rent tokes for diff'rent folks, as I always say.

 

That's why I'm going into that field. There's hardly any help for people at that end of the eating disorder spectrum. There are plenty of clinics that treat anorexia and bulimia, and sure, many of them also claim to treat binge eating disorder as well, but in my searches I have not found one treatment center or other kind of facility that specializes in the treatment of compulsive overeating and binge eating. And one of the problems is that there are so many ignorant people like you out there who have no sympathy for these people and just pass them off as fat asses without any self control without realizing that it is a serious problem, just like anorexia and bulimia. The longer people go on believing this, the worse the problem will get. COE and binge eating disorder aren't always as immediately life-threatening as anorexia and bulimia, but over time the damage they impose on the body is tremendous, not to mention how devastating these disorders can be to the sufferer's life.

Just because you have never experienced it first hand, that doesn't make food addiction any less real. As previously mentioned, food acts on pleasure centers in the brain just like many drugs do. Aside from this there are many psychological factors that make it addicting, like the comfort stigma most of us attach to it from childhood. Big dinners with family, snacks to quiet us when we're fussy as children, special goodies when we're sick, food as reward for good grades or other achievements, snacks when we get home from school. All through our lives food gathers all these positive associations, so it's no wonder that later in life many people cling to food for comfort and as a release from the hells of everyday life, and eventually this leads to addiction. An addiction that is nearly impossible to break. Most other addictions you can work to completely eradicate from your life, but with food it's impossible to do this. You have to eat to survive, but when eating's the problem this can seem like a losing battle. The delicate balance of eating for health while not fueling a food addiction is very very difficult. It would be like trying to quit heroin, but having to inject only once every two or three days and stop at that. Ha...I'd like to see an addict successfully pull that one off. Would you say that that heroin addict had no self control because they couldn't do it? Probably not. That's why there's so many drug rehabilitation centers. It's about time we stop making people with compulsive overeating feel like spineless beings and start addressing the problem, educating the public, and getting these people the proper help they need and deserve.

 

Is there no spot for in HS?

I just said HS grad. haha which I plan to do.

 

I droped out of high school, but ended up going back to school a few years after that and getting a BA.

 

graduated from high school
but going on my second year of college in the fall