Re: eating disorders and OCD?

[Guest guest]

yes my niece has OCD with GAD and she has major eating issues

Chynna

> Just wondering if anyone knew if eating disorders are a form of OCD. I

> know it's an anxiety issue...worry of being fat.

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> Becky in N.D.

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[Guest guest]

I think that I read somewhere that it can be. A doctor once told me that OCD

simply is exponential anxiety in any form. Our therapist treats any irrational,

fear, phobia, obsession with the same approach. Personally, I question any

anxiety is very irrational and interferes with normal function.

Bonnie

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> Just wondering if anyone knew if eating disorders are a form of OCD. I know

it's an anxiety issue...worry of being fat.

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> Becky in N.D.

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[Guest guest]

In my reading, I have read that girls with OCD are more at risk for eating

disorders. I worry about my dd9 because her appetite has been wavering and she's

lost 5 pounds the last month and a half. It seems to be related to her

worries...she has to be completely distracted (like playing a game) in order to

eat. She worries about her stomach hurting (which it does most the time), she

worries about vomiting (which is very infrequent and only for medical reasons),

and she admitted to the therapist that she's " afraid " of getting fat. She gets

" grossed out " very easily, and can't eat when words or images get stuck in her

brain that are gross. 

Subject: eating disorders and OCD?

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Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 12:45 PM

 

Just wondering if anyone knew if eating disorders are a form of OCD. I know it's

an anxiety issue...worry of being fat.

Becky in N.D.

[Guest guest]

Becky, this info at OCD Chicago seems to cover it well. A long link, I hope it

works. If not, the page leading to article is the 2nd link; look over to the

left on that page:

http://www.ocdchicago.org/index.php/experts-perspectives/article/ocd_and_eating_\

disorders_untangling_the_diagnostic_web/#

http://www.ocdchicago.org/index.php/news/events/

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> Just wondering if anyone knew if eating disorders are a form of OCD. I know

it's an anxiety issue...worry of being fat.

>

> Becky in N.D.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Becky,

The Chicago link seems to address this very well. I can tell you from personal

experience, I had a bit of OCD as a child (it flared again with pregnancy and

perimenopause), Anorexia as a teen, and GAD as an adult. All forms of anxiety,

manifesting different ways at different ages, its seems. From my understanding,

anorexia nervosa is on the ocd spectrum.

Tina

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> Just wondering if anyone knew if eating disorders are a form of OCD. I know

it's an anxiety issue...worry of being fat.

>

> Becky in N.D.

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