Self-Sabotage

[tamaranth]

"I'm feeling low: I'll finish off that box of ice-cream truffles" is a really stupid idea if you are even slightly lactose-intolerant.
Especially if you were feeling nauseous to start with.

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I hae found a goats cheese in the local shops that stops at "mildly windy". You can try it if you like. When I was feeling self-abusive this weekend it took care if it nicely.

And for Ivory-goddess: self-harm seems to go with food intolerances. Not sure why but I don't know anyone with a food intolerance who hasn't at some moment stuffed their face with the forbidden. (This is not the same as allergies.)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

wrote you long reply. LJ lost it.

Precis:
- my lactose-intolerance is weird and possibly not real. Cheese never sets me off. Ice cream is usually fine -- I can eat a lot without ill effects.

- long wibble about terminology 'self-harm'. Implies intent which was not there (only 'harm' should've been to waistline / hips). Also, slippery slope; whole big discussion about distinction between self-harm and not. (High heels? Smoking? Nylon undies? One glass of wine? One glass too many?)

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I think of self harm as "I feel crap, what can I do that will give me an instant lift but which I *know* will make me feel worse later...."

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Watching TV is closer to self-harm, for me, than ice cream! (Am wondering what it was about that particular brand -- of course I have binned all evidence -- that made me so very ill, in a way that whole milk or yoghurt do, and ice cream, mousse etc usually don't.)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone with a food intolerance who hasn't at some moment stuffed their face with the forbidden.

Hello, we obviously haven't met... !

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Truly!My god I admire you. I do stay away from gluten--I'm depressive not suicidal--but I usually gorge on milk before realising I have pms. for some reason not recognising why I am doing this is one of the symptoms.