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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
I have!! Near the beginning of last year, I constantly worried about whether I was stopping myself from eating. Even though I was eating normally, my brain would tell me that I had an eating disorder every time I refused food or didn’t want a certain kind of food. It was very scary and it made me rethink every choice I made at meals, to make sure I was consciously eating enough. I hope you’re doing okay ♥️ I think there are probably a lot of people with this theme, it’s just less known.
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- 5y ago
Meeee. Except it’s more complicated. I have contamination OCD that makes me fear all food is contaminated. That’s why I’m not eating... but my OCD has been latching onto the fact that I’m not eating and trying to make me think I have an eating disorder and that it’s not because it’s the contamination fears. So my OCD is making me afraid food is unsafe to eat, then when I don’t eat it tells me that maybe you’re making up the contamination fears and really you have an eating disorder. I don’t know if that makes sense. Lol
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- 5y ago
Yes it is possible. I get thoughts about choking when eating so I avoid certain foods, eat too slow, eat less quantity, am less hungry (because of the anxiety, I'm just less hungry), etc. To me this is probably the most horrible form my OCD can take, because I can't physically force myself to swallow...
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- 4y ago
hi, i searched for this thread but i’m glad i found it - i think i have that although it latches in with my wider mental health theme which stems from my suicidal ocd. i get scared that i might be restricting (i’m not) or focusing on my weight (i’m not) and i have real issues with foods that feel like they could be raw or mouldy which definitely doesn’t help. i think i’ve managed to have one theme feed another theme. i have anxiety and i also have a couple of medical conditions that make me nauseous and less hungry at times but i always get scared that means i have an eating disorder or such. idk. it’s weird
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- 22w 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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- 19w ago
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- 16w ago
Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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