Hi- I'm a 21 year old female with a history of depression and anxiety. I have been on numerous diets and get obsessed about controlling my weight.. and then I snap out of and go back to 'normal' eating. During the beginning of college, I gain the dreaded 'freshman fifteen'. I went back to my usual weight the following summer. Now a senior, I am back to watching my calories and get sucked into thinking about food and my weight constantly. I want to lose 30 pounds and people think this is ridiculous because I am a healthy 5'8" and 155 pounds. Needless to say, I failed and strayed off my healthy eating and felt so guilty, thus I threw it up. I continued to do this 4 to 5 times a week for almost two months. And now I just stopped. I logically know that it is unhealthy to have this binge-purge cycle, but does it mean I am or was bulimic? I feel like at times I have tendencies towards disordered eating because I grew up in a household obsessed with looks and perfection. I hate feeling like a failure because I can never stick with anything, even if it is 'bad' or unhealthy.
I don't know what to do? I told my psychiatrist that I throw up sometimes and he was concerned, but when I see him again and he asks me if I have been purging and I say, no, I'm over it.. I think it was just a phase, will he think I'm crazy of some kind of fake person. Ugh, I should have never even told him.
Sorry this is so long...