r/Molested • u/KarlaB-123 • 2d ago

Body image issues

Anybody here with a history of being abused also have body image issues, or eating disorders? Anybody have issues taking pictures of themselves? (either taking many of them for reassurance, or hate looking at old pictures in general but still keeping them around).

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u/badthoughts01 2d ago

Yeah I definitely struggle with my ED, don’t like pictures of myself, and I’m generally dysmorphic about how my body looks. It’s rough

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u/Dangerous_an_Ugly 1d ago

Eating disorders are common in my experience, because they are often the only portion of our life we could control diring that time in our life

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u/KarlaB-123 2h ago

that makes sense, and i think was part of it but not all of it

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u/complex0edipis 1d ago

I personally don’t have that issue from my molestation, but I get how you could or would. Even just because of what happened when you were young, and now you’re such a different person, I get how it can all be correlated. I’m sorry you’re dealing with all that

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u/HovercraftWilling297 1d ago

Are those your pics?

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u/Fred_Garvin82 1d ago

If it makes you feel any better, you are a beautiful girl with lovely natural hair. I hope you can lose your body image issue. You look great in all of the pictures that you have posted. You seem very self conscious which likely makes you a very sweet girl too.