YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Does anyone have experience with this group, and any thoughts on pros and cons?

For the past couple of months I've been living alone for the first time in many years, and I find myself reverting to binge eating unhealthy food, behavior that I thought I'd put behind me several years ago. I've attended an OA meeting here and there in the past, but never got a sponsor or committed to the program.

Any other ideas about stopping this behavior would be welcome.

Hey!

I went to open OA meetings when I was in the gutter; it seems like they were successful people.

I'm not sure if I could abide by their 3/0/24. The food plan is a great idea.

I'm more of a WW man, myself.

Thank you for the input, Oak. Just in the past few days I've acknowledged to myself just how disordered my eating continues to be, and how much my current weight and lack of regular exercise probably contributes to my depression.

Even I put on a lot of weight when I moved away from home for college. With so much academic stress and peer pressure, binge-eating proved to be only source of solace. It has been 5 years since I am struggling with overeating but I finally admitted that I have a problem only a couple of weeks back. Hoping to find some ways to deal with binge-eating.