Depression definitely....major depression over loosing my career as an engineer & the career that helped me escape from my bad marriage.

Then came prozac....lovely little pill that created nausea & I didn't want to eat....& the weight just kept dropping.....while being suidical at the same time....thinking.....gee, if I just loose so much weight, then my family won't end up with the stigma of the suicide....it will be anorexia related & wouldn't be so difficult on my daughter.

I managed surviving through all of that (sure it was God that kept me alive).

Second time, just about 8 years later, I went through a horrible trauma & the stress was what caused the weight loss that time.....I was feeling so sick from the stress, then the trauma I went through.....I got so sick I couldn't keep food down....& maybe not eating might have had something to do with having some level of control over something in my life at that time also....don't know if that was really accurate of not because I was so messed up from the trauma & then the PTSD after it. My weight didn't get as low as the first time....but it was definitely way too low & ended up on IV nutrition & in & out of the medical hospital for several months.

There were always things before my major weight losses & my anorexia.......but I remember way back to college days & mid-terms & finals. I would be so stressed, I would always loose weight during that time even if I ate normally.....guaranteed weight loss during stressful times of my life & I did like to see the scales go down....but after the stress time, I would just revert back to normal without problems until my major depression hit....then no luck of reverting back to normal as too many things were falling apart in my life.