Eating disorder & OCD

When I was in treatment for OCD, I developed an eating disorder. So my OCD did decrease, but I felt like the eating disorder took its place. Now lm in eating disorder treatment and my eating disorder decreases, but guess what: my OCD gets worse and worse.. Besides that, I feel like my eating disorder is kinda like my OCD. At first I was totally obsessed with calories and losing weight and everything that had to do with it, 24/7.. Than after being anorexic, I developed bulimia and binge eating disorder. I felt like being fat was the intrusion, losing weight by purging restricting, overexercising and searching information about losing weight hours a day were the compulsions. Binges were caused by an extreme urge to get rid of my emotions, so also the binges felt like compulsions to me. Do people recognize this? What do you think about Eating disorders and OCD?

Username: worrier 24worrier 24

Date posted: 1y ago

I decided to lose weight a few years ago and became obsessed and didn’t realise until over a year later that it was unhealthy. I was just shoot that it gave me something else to focus on and my ocd wasn’t as bad. But I was scared to eat certain things and would go out of my way to not eat out it was bad! I ended up with a binge eating disorder and body dysmorphia. I slows my starter to realise that I was unhappy so stopped obsessing over food but unfortunately I gained all the weight back plus more and since stopping the diet my ocd had flared up about 3 times. I feel so shit about myself now I looked in the mirror today and feel like I’ve gained about 2stone over night! It’s hard for me bc I have PCOS as well. But now Looking back I think my eating patterns did have something to do with ocd but didn’t realise at the time how obsessed and unhappy I was.

Username: MyLifeIsOCDMyLifeIsOCD

Date posted: 1y ago

Im so sorrry to hear this... I almost had the same story and gaining sm weight made me hate myself. OCD can be a coping mechanism, an ED can be aswell... But the feeling of control the ED gives you can almost feel addictive. I feel like my ED could make me happy sometimes even tho i was miserable and lost my health and friends, while my OCD never did give me any feeling of happiness. Did you have treatment for your ED? ❤️

Username: worrier 24worrier 24

Date posted: 1y ago

@Day23 No I never got any treatment but I tried to educate myself but I do still binge it sometimes and find it hard to look in the mirror bc sometimes I look okay other times I look like I’ve gained 2 atone over night but it’s no where near as bad as what it was. I don’t control what I eat as much now.

Username: Erin PErin P

Date posted: 1y ago

Rogers Behavioral Health has a residential center where the treat eating disorders and OCD. They saved my life. I had ARFID around avoiding foods that could make restroom trips longer or worse and restroom related OCD.

Username: Nikki Kim

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

OCD & body image/food issues

every once in a while my body image issues flare up & it can get intense. i obsess over the feeling I have in my clothes to check if I’ve gained weight, think of food, and have this perception that everyone sees me in a certain light I don’t want to see. i really can beat myself up with negative self talk. i haven’t realized until today since body image issues are so common that this could be my ocd. i used to engage in highly restrictive behavior when it came to food—I eliminated any white carbs, dairy, meat, etc & would do intermittent fasting. it’s hard not to fall into this obsession. I gained a few pounds over the last couple of months and it makes me feel anxious for the summer. anyone have a similar experience? x

Username: Northern_Dow...

Date posted: 1y ago

OCD about my eating disorder.

Possible trigger warning if anyone else has an ED. I saw a post online that basically said if you cant have a restrictive eating disorder without being fatphobic. I have Anorexia, struggled with it for years. I truly believe in beauty at every size and eating what you want, I've never been the type of person to judge others for their bodies or what they eat. I would never look down on someone for their weight and I hate it when other people with my disorder shame people for being overweight or use it to 'encourage' themselves. I do have an unexplainable fear of gaining weight but that unfortunately just comes with the illness and i only ever apply these standards to myself. There's even been times I wished more people could think more like me so that I wouldn't be insecure about gaining weight. I genuienly dont equate weight to anyone's worth, to me it's just a number until I'm the one on the scale. My OCD is telling me now that by struggling an ED i hate fat people or am being offensive. That I should force myself to eat even though it makes me anxious and it's not something I can just force myself to do. I've been in this horrible limbo all day with my mind on whether or not just being sick makes me a terrible person. :') I hate OCD.

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Username: Croissant

Date posted: 45w ago

OCD or disordered eating?

Hi! I’ve struggled with bouts of disordered eating for years. It comes in waves and then settles down again. Today I realized it might actually be my ocd that causes it. The intrusive thought is gaining weight and the compulsion is the disordered eating/purging behaviors. Has anyone ever struggled with this? Could this be ocd?

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