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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
Why can't I stop eating?
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.
Why can't I stop eating?
by beanastep, Apr 12, 2008 05:52AM
I have 3 children and since 1 month after giving birth to my first child I started taking antidepressants for anxiety and post natal depression. I have been taking them for about four and a half years now and have tried Luvox, Aropax, Lexapro, and am now on Citalopram, which I've been on for about 1 1/2 years. So I have also been overweight since having my first child and honestly, despite my best efforts to get slim ( I'm fairly fit and eat quite healthily), I keep sabotaging myself and binge eating, almost every other day. So I don't lose the weight. My question is, could the binge eating be a result of the medication? Usually, I'm not even hungry and just force myself to eat anyway....
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Apr 12, 2008 03:03PM
, Apr 12, 2008 03:03PM
To: beanastep
No, the binge eating is not caused by the medication but by the underlying anxiety and depression. Food is being used as an additional medicine to deal with the anxiety episodes that are not covered by the medication. Antidepressants only help with the symptoms but not the underlying cause so I recommend you look seriously into help for your emotional eating and binging since it will be the only way that you can lose weight and keep it off permanently. You can get more ***@****.
Member Comments
by kimmyj1970, May 05, 2008 08:18PM
To: Dr Gould
When you experience the uncontrolled hunger of medication then you should try answering that question ... and not before.
