I can totally understand. I've had problems with eating before but I'm not sure if they really qualified as a disorder. Until recently I never really thought of this as one of my problems. When I've struggled with anorexia or EDNOS it's usually been during stressful times. The first time I started restricting was when I went to college and I was depressed and alone all the time, then it was when my boyfriend was working nightshift, and now I just came out of an abusive relationship and it triggered it hardcore. I've always been able to hide it before but everyone started noticing and I ended up getting diagnosed anorexic. I have periods where I binge eat too. I binged a lot as a teenager when I was living with my verbally abusive parents and I binge ate when I lived with my abusive boyfriend too. I wasn't sure if I believed it or not when I was diagnosed and had really mixed feelings. Now I'm starting to accept it and try to figure out how to treat it once it's here and predict when it might resurface. I'm thinking the anorexia happens when I'm depressed and the binge eating happens when I'm nervous.
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