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- SageSage
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I've never had a eating disorder but when my OCD gets bad, I start to barely eat anything for days or weeks but it goes after a while. I've had it twice over the past couple of months. I guess thats normal in OCD but it's horrible.
I had an eating disorder for a very long time. But I finally learned to let it go and I did that without professional help. You have to want to let it go first and then heal, if you don't want to let go of it not even the best therapist in the world can help you. You have to understand that every eating disorder comes is an intention to hating yourself, and you should never ever hate yourself! We all have different bodies and shapes, we should just be thankful for what our bodies do to us and how blessed we are to have something so amazing such as our bodies. You should try to eat more healthy and train, that helped me very much. It might be hard, but it is worth it.
Yes, it sucks but apparantly they co-occur together a lot
https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/treatment-for-eating-disorders/co-occurring-dual-diagnosis/ocd-obsessive-compulsive-disorder/ocd-and-eating-disorders-often-occur-together https://ocdhelpinfo.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/ocd-and-binge-eating/ https://www.ocdmassachusetts.org/2014/04/10/is-it-ocd-or-an-eating-disorder/ https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-eating-disorders-and-ocd/ https://youtu.be/n6Ui_0HsPeU
Yes. I have heard that ocd as a child can lead to bulimia as an adult. Someone said that, and I kinda can see how. The rituals turn toward food.
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Has anyone else been diagnosed with anxiety and OCD traits?
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?
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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