Hey everyone. I'm a recovering (or trying to) BED sufferer. I've been visiting with a therapist once a week and trying to overcome my issues and I've found that my family, despite my having a therapist and suffering with this for almost a year, still do not fully understand how big of an issue this is.
I just got done fighting with my dad over the fact that there are foods in the house that I cannot seem to keep myself away from, and how I would appreciate it if he would try to abstain from buying them. He got very angry with me and told me I was being selfish? Am I? I feel so terrible because I'm causing so much trouble with having to have a therapist and not being able to be under the same roof as certain foods.
My family still buys very tempting foods, like poptarts and candy bars, because obviously they do not believe my BED is as big of a problem as I know it is. Otherwise, they would never bring those foods in the house.
Am I wrong for wanting those foods out of the house? For wanting my family's honest-to-god help?
Has anyone else had these issues?

I don't think you are wrong at all. It would be wonderful to have your family's support.

Have you talked with your therapist about maybe setting up a few family therapy sessions so that perhaps your family can see the negative impacts their actions have on your recovery?

It can be very difficult for people without EDs to realize how deeply the ED affects those of us with it. I have recovered from anorexia, but, believe me, my parents and family did not make it easy with comments about how much I could eat since I was so skinny, why didn't I just eat already, didn't I realize I was so skinny I was ugly and not attractive? I couldn't take it, and luckily, after having to withdraw from college for a semester, I was strong enough to move back there and able to recover without my family breathing down my neck and plus my university had a pretty strong support system for EDs.

So I'm recovered now about 5 years, but it's no thanks to my family. I wish I had gotten them to go to some therapy sessions now that I look back on it, maybe they would have been more sensitive to the issues surrounding EDs.