General Eating Disorder Questions

Ok…So If A Person Is Constantly Obessed With How Many Times To Eat A Day And What They Are Eating… Do They Have An Eating Disorder? What If They Only Eat A Small Snack In The Morning And Wait Till Dinner To Actually Eat A Meal?

I Dont Think That Necessarily purplemaggot5 – 09/16/2009 – 18:55 i dont think that necessarily makes someone anorexic but it could be your body doesn’t get the excercise it needs to make you hungry. id say that just your willingness to eat a decent sized meal at any time during the shows courage that most …

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I Used To Binge Eat, Now I Eat Sweets, Cookies Etc. In Secret All Day. My Psychiatrist Thinks I Should Join Weight Watchers. I Did, First Time 30 Years Ago! Don’t Want To Die From This!

Have You Ever Been Diagnosed janurse427 – 09/07/2009 – 17:27 Have you ever been diagnosed with an eating disorder? Have you been honest with your psychiatrist about your eating pattern? Do you ever purge after binging? First, you should be honest with your psychiatrist, and if his opinion remains the same, be honest with him …

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How Should I Tell My Mom That I Might Have An Eating Disorder?

Hi: There’s No One Way To Amy Colwell – 05/13/2012 – 09:41 Hi: There’s no one way to tell your Mom that you might have an eating disorder, but I can offer you some suggestions that may help make it a little easier. Everyone is different (including your Mom!) and it is not unusual for …

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Hi I’m A Little New To This, Susiebelle – 10/02/2012 – 15:10 Hi I’m a little new to this, I have really bad anxiety and depression and I’ve lost a lot of weight since last year and I’m in and out of hospital all the time with low potassium. The NHS (I live in Scotland) …

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Desperately Searching For The Way Out Of This Forever. I Am A 19 Year Old College Student Who Can Only Handle Food “Sensibly” Whenever I Restrict My Caloric Intake And Can Control My Weight From Getting Out Of Hand. I Have A Fear Of Gaining Weight Back.

(Continued) Yet At The Same, missnatalie93 – 06/16/2012 – 12:05 (Continued) yet at the same, as I restrict I am occasionally prone to binge-eating (more in seasons, less in seasons, it comes and goes and sometimes depends on my life at the time)I’m to the point of where I’m so sick of having this problem …

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