emilyx
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MJocdMJocd
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I'm pretty sure I do. I'm either obsessed with calories or binge eating and hating myself, most of the time ED behaviours distract me from my intrusive thoughts but sometimes it all comes together and makes me feel hopeless. Or like an OCD intrusive thought will rid me of my motivation to exercise and I find that really difficult.
LostForeverLostForever
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That’s also what I have, I had a period of binge eating a few weeks afo when the OCD was at it’s worst. Before this I did not know I had OVD and anxiety symptoms. Now I eat like like I did before ( too little) because I gained weight. I also exercise quite often, but there are days I have intrusive thoughts very severely and feel to down to exercise. At those moments I think Exercising does not mayyer because something bad is going to happen, my weight is way less important than that. Eating is like punishing myself and at the same time it’s a coping mechanism.
emilyx emilyx
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@Trueblossom i’ll be exercising to burn calories and then i’ll get a thought like “you must do 200 in 2 mins or you’ll die” or something like that which makes it worse.
LostForeverLostForever
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@emilyx I don’t have those thoughs, but more like if you don’t push yourself, you will be fat and ugly and lazy. The thoughs something bad is going to happen for me is more related to the contamination OCD
emilyx emilyx
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@Trueblossom i cant eat normally anymore without thinking i’ve binged. like if i eat a normal amount i feel so guilty.
LostForeverLostForever
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Me, I have had and ed for many years. Hating my body and scared of gaining weight. Untill recently I was underweight, bu never severly to the point I had to go to the hospital. but the struggle is bad...
LostForeverLostForever
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The ‘control’ is moslty the reason why obsess over what I eat and I prob of body dysmorphis
LostForeverLostForever
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What ed do you think you have?
analeiaganaleiag
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I've struggled with an eating disorder for years. It's tough to treat both, but doable. It's a pretty common combination. I recommend a treatment team that specializes in ED.
ava ava
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Me!!!
MJocdMJocd
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@Trueblossom that is EXACTLY what I go through. Currently I've been eating to little (on purpose) and my weight is my sole focus, everything else seems to fall into the background.
LostForeverLostForever
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I am now going to a mental health practice for my OCD and anxiety disorder starting next year, but noe my eating disorder. My psychologist believes my ed stems from the former two ( I thought so too) and since most ed centres focus on severely underweight people. Since I am not I am not a patient of crucial need. I struggle with it though... Because of my weight I do not menstruate and am way shorter than was estimated. My body looks like that of a 12 years old, while I am 21. Since I have had this in my puberty my body prob did not develope as it should have. My GP and gynocologisy bacicslly told me nothing physicslly is wrong with me to cause the absence of my period ans should just take the pill from time to time. Feel like ‘women’ issues are hardly taken seriously, and women are often told to just deal with it. The thing is that I did mesntruate myself just once; the first time. But even when I was not underweight, or just underweight I did not get my period... No idea what to do, because everyone keeps saying I just have to gain weight. Not easy, hate it when people say this
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