Sigh,,,,,it works the other way too. When I get stressed, I always end up feeling so sick to my stomach that I can't eat & end up way below 100. Luckily I am only 5'2" but anything below 104 puts me at risk & it usually goes down to the low 90's or low 80's.

Neither way is healthy & both seem to be control issues. But if you look at the DSM-IV, eating disorders also include body image issues like thinking I look too fat when I weigh so little. The body image is a big part of the DX for an eating disorder, & without that, it truely isn't an eating disorder. I actually realized that I looked like a walking skeleton but felt so sick I just couldn't get any food down. The DX in the medical hospital where I was getting the central line with the TPN was anorexia, there was a big argument by the DR's as to the actual DX.

I found out that any time your eating & weight is not within it's healthy range it is named anorexia or overeating however the treatment has to help with the issue that is causing the eating problem & not the body image which the eating disorder centers concentrate on. The only real problem with it is that the Dr's want to take the easy way out & try to force you into an eating disorders center. When looking for treatment after being in the hospital for 2 months being treated for my anemia & mal nutrition (anorexia), I was told my an eating dirorders treatment center that they couldn't help treat me for my weight loss cause & that I should look into a PTSD treatment center....(unfortunately they didn't know how to treat the trauma I went through either).....just typical of everything I go through.

When you are having a problem that is causing an eating disorder, it is important to treat the cause & not the condition otherwise the eating issue will not go away.
Debbie