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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
what do i do?
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions in the Emotional Eating forum are answered by Dr. Roger Gould. Topics covered include anger and eating, anxiety and eating, binge eating, depression and eating, eating to "fit in", emotional eating, fill the void eating, guilt and eating, loneliness and eating, social eating, and stress and eating.
what do i do?
by pixie713, Nov 17, 2007 03:02PM
I'm 20 years of age and weaigh almost 100 lbs.I have been depressed for about 7 or 8 years and i eat a **** load of food and gain anything. one month i ate alot and sat on my butt for the whole month and went down to 80 lbs. i can i gain weight
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Nov 19, 2007 02:39PM
, Nov 19, 2007 02:39PMTo: pixie
This sounds more like a physical problem, than an emotional eating problem. If it were emotional eating, it would be that you eat more because you are depressed and you gain weight. IF it is not physical, then it could be that you have what used to be called an agitated depression, i.e. that you are not only depressed, but very anxiious or "wired" and that makes you burn so many calories. If that is the case, then ask your doctor about an anti-anxiety medication, such as klonopin.
