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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
Ugh, yes. I do this sometimes too (more often than I’d want to admit). I recommend either putting this OCD to good use and become a dietitian (I’m serious. Every bad thing (OCD) has a good part to it; and vice versa) or you can try to avoid talking about health related topics with people. I mean, I don’t feel right trying to necessarily change your eating habits. It’s great that you eat healthy! It’s just a matter of learning how to control the intrusive thoughts and anxiety that comes with eating and such. Cause trust me, food OCD is awful. Maybe if you ask me a more specific question.. I could be of more help to you?
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- 6y ago
Thanks for the reply! 1)I am worried whether is OCD or a kind of an eating disorder though, 2) any tips on how to control these intrusive thoughts about food? I find it very difficult because food is everywhere in our daily lives
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- 6y ago
I met a girl who struggled with this a lot. She had to intake a certain amount of calories and eat the exact serving size. To the dot. Poor thing would take a knife and cut a sliver of food off to make it the exact weight it should be. She also had her OCD with exercising. Having to burn an exact amount of calories. She lost a lot of weight. But by the end of treatment she was doing great ? I loved watching her progress, even though it was hard. She beat it in the butt! ?? ?
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- 6y ago
I feel that my head is going to explode from all these thoughts! ?
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- 6y ago
Are you able to give any examples of the intrusive thoughts you’re experiencing around food and eating?
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- 6y ago
Yes. For example, when I have a food on my plate almost immediately my mind starts dividing everything the plate has into calories, carbs, fat, protein, whether is healthy or not, and whether my gut would be ok if I eat that particular food (i have IBS so everytime I eat I feel anxious because there is a possobility that the food might affect me)
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- 21w ago
Hey guys! So I struggle with OCD, especially harm, relationship and moral stuff and I am somewhat recovered now. However, my current girlfriend has started showing signs of OCD but it’s abou5 something I don’t know much about so I wanted to see if anyone on here had thoughts about it. She is constantly thinking about food (when to eat it, what is healthy, what is too much, what is too little) and controls the thoughts by giving in and controlling her entire day around food. She don’t really know the feeling of being full. She never starved herself and always eats, but then she feels extremely guilty afterwards. Her thoughts do have to do a lot with her body image and not gaining weight but also not losing any either. Does this sound like ocd or an eating disorder?
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- 14w ago
It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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- 10w ago
Recently, I’ve been struggling a ton with what I eat/put into my body? I’m a first year college student with a few different health issues (including IBS), and lately it’s been hard for me to find food on campus that doesn’t upset my stomach. I also have pretty severe emetophobia, and feel extremely anxious when I feel sick. The ironic thing is that being anxious makes me feel even worse, so I end up sticking myself in an impossible loophole. My OCD has taken hold of these fears over the past few months, and it’s been such a struggle. Especially since people have been getting food poisoning from various dining halls on my campus lately. My OCD has gotten so bad that sometimes I’m too afraid to eat food other than what I buy myself. I feel so trapped. I don’t want my OCD to affect my physical health or prevent me from eating, bc I love eating!! It’s the fear of getting sick that’s the problem. And it’s even harder when everything is so unfamiliar. Just wondering if anyone could relate. Advice is appreciated!
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