Dying of anorexia

[Blackjack]

Ok, I'm confused now. You're editing what you wrote to food/eating only, which is fine.





But for the sake of clarity, you went for 4 months without food or without food AND drink?

Thanks

I drank water only minimally during this time.

 

[BipolarExpat]

I drank water only minimally during this time.

Ok, so zero food and minimal water for 4 months.

That's still an amazing feat to pull off.

The doctors, health care workers associated with your case must have been astounded.

Regardless, you should be on this list:

9 Longest Records for Surviving without Food

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Out of 9 miraculous stories, only 1 ("the Buddha Boy") lasted more than 2 1/2 months.

 

[bea1974]

A friend of mine survived 37 days on hunger strike in prison, along with 7 other men. They drank water throughout.

He was left with severe damage to all of his major organs and died less than 20 years later, of kidney failure, aged 42.

Starvation is a horrible thing to do yourself. A very slow and painful way to die, and also unlikely to work as medics will intervene.

 

[Blackjack]

Ok, so zero food and minimal water for 4 months.

That's still an amazing feat to pull off.

The doctors, health care workers associated with your case must have been astounded.

Regardless, you should be on this list:

9 Longest Records for Surviving without Food

An article about 9 Longest Records for Surviving without Food

www.survival-goods.com

Out of 9 miraculous stories, only 1 ("the Buddha Boy") lasted more than 2 1/2 months.

I wasn't/am not trying to be some sort of record holder. I'm just saying that I didn't eat for a long period of time, and lived to tell. Anyone considering starvation as a method of suicide should consider another method.

 

[BipolarExpat]

I understand.

But please know that 4 months of no food/minimal water is extremely extraordinary.

I'll leave it there.

 

[Ky204]

Unless you consider cardiac arrest and all of your main organs shutting down peaceful then no, I wouldn't...

 

[eve2004]

What about if you intentionally lost enough weight to lower your BMI as low as possible before using another chemical method (ie: SN), would that help the process? (Sorry, I'm diverting the topic...)

 

[Sweet emotion]

Would starving yourself and only drinking fluids lead to a peaceful death

No not at all. Hunger pains are quite severe and it is going to take a very long time for all your organs to shut down due to being malnourished. Also people re going to notice the drastic difference in your appearance and are going to start asking questions. This is not a good way to go. It could take months and months.

My apologies, Blackjack. I am extremely empathetic to your challenges but I find this quite hard to believe.

I'm led to believe from various sources that without incoming fluids of some sort, the average human would have trouble living beyond a week,...ten days at the most.

Here's just one perspective:

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No a person can live well beyond ten days. Have you ever seen the movie unbreakable? They were lost as sea for over three months and still alive. It's a very slow painful death.

 

[Rachel74]

would be a very LONG and unpleasant way to go.

 

[khw777]

NO!!


Not true. I didn't eat or drink for 4 months and didn't die.

You went that long 4 months without eating or drinking and survived without any complications!!!???

 

[Never Free]

I had refeeding syndrome and can't remember any events or pain, anything before it. Was in a coma for 5 days. What was it like for you? Agree what you write, it's a devasting disorder

I've been trying to get refeeding syndrome as a method of CTB. I think that's quicker, and easier than straight up starvation. Although I've been experiencing a lot of neurological/ emotional distress. I find caffeine to help fairly well with it. Alcohol apparently also puts you more at risk for it. Though some people say alcohol helps suppress the appetite typically has the opposite effect on me. Though recently I drank a sugar free Monster. I was worried it would set me back on my path to refeeding syndrome, so I chugged a lot of tap water, to hopefully water down my electrolytes. I drank one larger beer. I woke up with an awful stomach ache. I know alcohol is processed first. That's why I think i may have had been over hydrated. Especially combined with my malnourished state. Just hoping soon this will catch up to me for good. Not a pleasant process, but when i tried antifreeze they revived me at the final stage. I want to beyond repair if I'm to end up in hospital, or better yet die before anyone realizes what's happening.

I think you would potentially be hospitalised for anorexia.

Lots of genuinely sick people are also Dx with this too. As in physical problems making them not want to eat. This really stupid dietitian tried to label me as that for hardly eating when I was in ICU recovering from antifreeze poisoning. Like many MH workers they ignore obvious factors, in attempts to read minds. In fact many with disordered eating end up with stomach issues anyways. Yet they like to label at the ED lies apparently. This even happened to me when I had antifreeze being flushed out of my veins. At least there's the benefit of probably being able to get out of treatment sooner, if they don't think it's a suicide attempt. Though very invasive, and coercive from what I hear. I've only been to general psych.