Eating Disorder

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UsernameStillLoading Posts: 299 Member
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So recently I've been feeling like I have an eating disorder, but part of me doesn't believe that.
So my question is how do you know whether it's an eating disorder, or just bad habit?

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  • kaylabrose
    kaylabrose Posts: 71
    Tell me what your ''bad habits'' are?

    Usually if it's ruining your life, it's an ED lol.
  • rabies
    rabies Posts: 62
    There isn't a line you step over, they're flowing into eachother. Could you explain what you're feeling?
  • gel91
    gel91 Posts: 309
    When you can't control it, when you start to make excuses to condone it, when it becomes something you think about alot of the time, when you know it's wrong & do it anyway, and so on.

    There is lots of different ways of addiction.

    What type of eating disorder are you worried about?

    You may be better off speaking to a doctor
  • lisamarie1780
    lisamarie1780 Posts: 432 Member
    more information is definitely needed here :huh:
  • UsernameStillLoading
    UsernameStillLoading Posts: 299 Member
    Well the reason I don't believe I have a disorder is because it doesn't happen often but it is happening a lot more usual that before.
    Normally I would get cravings without being hungry and I would eat; or I would eat till I'm sick because I really loved the taste. Instances like that do not worry as much because I know that's just simple psychology. Pleasure over pain. Caring about the now than the later.
    Bur recently, I've been overeating. I think it's just lack of self-discipline. I haven't been pushing myself like I used to. But the only reason I'm worried is because I do know that eating disorders do run in my family. I also believe it to be nerves acting up. But then that might make me an emotional eater.
  • ladymiseryali
    ladymiseryali Posts: 2,555 Member
    Well the reason I don't believe I have a disorder is because it doesn't happen often but it is happening a lot more usual that before.
    Normally I would get cravings without being hungry and I would eat; or I would eat till I'm sick because I really loved the taste. Instances like that do not worry as much because I know that's just simple psychology. Pleasure over pain. Caring about the now than the later.
    Bur recently, I've been overeating. I think it's just lack of self-discipline. I haven't been pushing myself like I used to. But the only reason I'm worried is because I do know that eating disorders do run in my family. I also believe it to be nerves acting up. But then that might make me an emotional eater.

    That almost sounds like binge-eating disorder. The only way to really know would be to talk to a psychologist of some sort.
  • Snow3y
    Snow3y Posts: 1,412 Member
    a disorder would be if you obsess over something that isn't even something someone else would think about twice... For me, I have body dysmorphic disorder..I constant critique myself, obsess over my image, think something can be improved on obsessively, always feel imperfect visually

    With an eating disorder, you'd need to elaborate on your symptoms

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