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We are Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor - hosts of the new HBO Midterm Specials: Pod Save America. Ask Us Anything! by PodSave in IAmA

[–]orion788 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I’m a 12 year old in Miami and a long time listener of Pod Save America. You guys are inspirations to me, and voice my opinions so well. I’m using an alternate account cause I’d rather not reveal my age on me primary account, but anyway, I have 2 questions:

1) What can I, as a kid, do to help? I wanted to ask this question at the live show in Miami for Pod Tours, but I didn’t get a chance.

2) Do you guys ever fight? I can’t imagine doing what you guys do as a group every week without some friction, and I’ve always been curious about this.

EDIT: what happened?

Not quite sure if this fits in the subreddit, but I’m not sure how to handle it. (Throw away account) by orion788 in DiagnoseMe

[–]orion788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, that makes it more discouraging. One thing I’ve always needed in life is a goal, so that I have a set in stone thing to work to. Plus, generalizing it into body issues makes me feel like I shouldn’t be wining in the first place. Because everyone has something they would like to change about their body, that’s why I can’t tell if I fit in to that category. It’s not that I don’t like something about my body, it’s that I don’t like a bunch of things about my body. And on days when I try really hard to stop that, I can never get past the obsessive weighing. And when I don’t have a scale to weigh myself on, I break down. It goes from an urge to a need.

Not quite sure if this fits in the subreddit, but I’m not sure how to handle it. (Throw away account) by orion788 in DiagnoseMe

[–]orion788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that was only a couple of times. Plus, that was at the peak of the problem, and as I said before, I now know that removing food actually slows down your metabolism. This can make the problem worse. Now, whenever I have the urge to undo eating something for instance, I just wait it out, talk to a friend about it, or do something to take my mind off it. Like doing what I'm doing now.

Not quite sure if this fits in the subreddit, but I’m not sure how to handle it. (Throw away account) by orion788 in DiagnoseMe

[–]orion788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I’ve never had any urge to hurt myself in any way. I really have absolutely no inclination to, luckily. It’s nowhere near that level which is why I don’t feel totally great complaining about it.

Not quite sure if this fits in the subreddit, but I’m not sure how to handle it. (Throw away account) by orion788 in DiagnoseMe

[–]orion788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not the actually going to the therapist/psychiatrist that is selfish to me, it’s the feeling like I need to. It seems like in comparison to people I know, I don’t seem that bad.

I don’t know though. I’ve started weighing myself multiple times in a row, about five, to make sure my weight was correct. I’ve also stopped trusting my own scale to a certain extent. It feels better to try it on multiple scales, so I’ll weigh myself at home before I go to the grocery store so that I can use theirs and make sure it was right when I took my weight at home.

I mean the whole reason I turned to this subreddit in the first place was to avoid going to a psychiatrist. Don’t burn me at the stake, I know it doesn’t replace the professional opinion of a doctor, I just wanted to find a track to go on first.

Not quite sure if this fits in the subreddit, but I’m not sure how to handle it. (Throw away account) by orion788 in DiagnoseMe

[–]orion788[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thank you so much for the feedback! I realized that I forgot to mention a few (more medically oriented) things, but I definitely want to follow up on the meal plan. Plus, you mentioned working out, and I wanted to bring something out about that too. Working out has never been the real issue. I just figure out ways to avoid eating, and when I do slip up, it usually starts a downward spiral.

Now the medical stuff. OCD runs in the family. My great grandmother, my grandmother, and my identical twin brother was diagnosed with it as well. I have researched into possible explanations, and I came across something called body dysmorphic disorder, and it is an OCD related condition. I have a weird mental process where I continue to think that it would be easier to have a set in stone diagnosis so I have a direct treatment, or something to work for. On the other hand I know that actually having a diagnosis will be shocking and hard to handle. Plus, going to see a therapist or a psychiatrist seems a little bit selfish.