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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
Am i anorexic?
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.
Am i anorexic?
by pleasehelpme88, Mar 06, 2008 05:17PM
Hi,
I have posteed here before, but it was about a lot of things and not specific to eating disorders and i would love a doctors opinion too.
i know i have some sort of an eating disorder... but wondering which one it is...
im thinking maybe EDNOS because i dont fit into any categories... like i fit into anorexia but im not underweight and i have bulimic tendancies.
i weigh 50kg and am 165cm tall.
However, last month i was 55-56kg (what i usually am)
and im usually ok at this weight AS LONG as i can maintain it.
50kg is my lowest (and its only taken 1 month to lose 5kg.)
is this underweight?? (im nearly 20 years old.)
Ok. i have been stressed, but i also abuse laxatives and take diet pills. i HATE gaining weight. i weigh myself everyday and it determines my mood.. and i know the calorie content in just about everything..
sometimes i eat and then purge. but i dont have 'binges' as such... i will just eat a 'naughty' food or just feel full.
But i am scared of getting too thin or looking sick!!
its weird....
But my hair is falling out a bit and i know im not well. however it is easy to tell those around me that it is just stress.
It is not really i weight thing... like i dont think im fat really. but i would love t weigh 45 kg again...
like a little girl.
but i never even thought i would get to 50.. and now that i have im am PETRIFIED of getting to 55-56kg again- even though this is the normal weight for me.
its more like a control thing. i feel better if i deprive myself of what i like. I feel REALLY good if i throw food away that i have just bought or somthing..
anyway....but then sometimes ill eat because i know i have too. so im not sure if its anorexia?
i also suffer from anxiety and OCD tendencies.
I am a perfectionist but have been slipping up a bit lately.
I have been raped twice.
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT EATING DISORDER IT IS... OR WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!
Looking forward to diagnosis and responses,
pleasehelpme88
I have posteed here before, but it was about a lot of things and not specific to eating disorders and i would love a doctors opinion too.
i know i have some sort of an eating disorder... but wondering which one it is...
im thinking maybe EDNOS because i dont fit into any categories... like i fit into anorexia but im not underweight and i have bulimic tendancies.
i weigh 50kg and am 165cm tall.
However, last month i was 55-56kg (what i usually am)
and im usually ok at this weight AS LONG as i can maintain it.
50kg is my lowest (and its only taken 1 month to lose 5kg.)
is this underweight?? (im nearly 20 years old.)
Ok. i have been stressed, but i also abuse laxatives and take diet pills. i HATE gaining weight. i weigh myself everyday and it determines my mood.. and i know the calorie content in just about everything..
sometimes i eat and then purge. but i dont have 'binges' as such... i will just eat a 'naughty' food or just feel full.
But i am scared of getting too thin or looking sick!!
its weird....
But my hair is falling out a bit and i know im not well. however it is easy to tell those around me that it is just stress.
It is not really i weight thing... like i dont think im fat really. but i would love t weigh 45 kg again...
like a little girl.
but i never even thought i would get to 50.. and now that i have im am PETRIFIED of getting to 55-56kg again- even though this is the normal weight for me.
its more like a control thing. i feel better if i deprive myself of what i like. I feel REALLY good if i throw food away that i have just bought or somthing..
anyway....but then sometimes ill eat because i know i have too. so im not sure if its anorexia?
i also suffer from anxiety and OCD tendencies.
I am a perfectionist but have been slipping up a bit lately.
I have been raped twice.
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT EATING DISORDER IT IS... OR WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!
Looking forward to diagnosis and responses,
pleasehelpme88
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Mar 07, 2008 02:12PM
, Mar 07, 2008 02:12PM
To: pleasehelpme
I don't believe in giving a diagnosis online, or usually, even off line. You definetly do have a problem with food and weight, an obsession that preoccupies you and occupies too much of your mental life, and the cure for that is some form of psychotherapy. It is a form of anxiety control .If therapy is not available to you for any reason, you can learn more about emotional eating on my site www.shrinkyourself.com.
