Posted by Racer on March 26, 2005, at 13:13:46
In reply to Re: ouch ... my own stupidity » SLS, posted by maxime on March 26, 2005, at 13:04:56
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> Anorexia my is Axis II diagnosis.
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> I cut for different reasons. Sometimes I need to know to that I am alive. I need to see the blood. Other times it's to release emotions that I don't know what to do with. This is what the DBT was suppose to help me with and it did. And sometimes I will punish myself for eating and cut myself.
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> Maxime
Actually, Anorexia Nervosa is an Axis I diagnosis, not Axis II.Cutting reminds me of certain self-injurious behaviors seen in animals under stressful conditions. I'm sure that there's some biochemical or evolutionary reality there, and Scott's probably got some good information about how it works.
For that matter, some studies have shown purely biochemical rewards for AN...
You didn't answer Scott's question, by the way, about how much of an issue anxiety is for you. It's only in the last few months that I've really understood how much of an issue it is for me, and now that I "get it", I can see how much of a problem it always has been for me. Hard as hell for me to look at it, but I'm glad now that I did.
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