I've posted before about how I think I have a weird attitude towards food, but it's changed in the past couple months and I'm worried it's become something more serious. I used to buy a lot of junk food and then let it go to waste because I didn't feel like eating it. Lately I've been trying to eat more healthily, but sometimes, maybe 2 or 3 times a week, I still get the urge to buy junk food. And then if I give into those urges, it leads to a stressful situation where I feel like I NEED to eat that food, but I still really don't want to. And then I end up eating it anyway, but the feeling won't go away, so I'll need to get more food. I don't feel hungry and I don't enjoy the food, but once I start, I can't stop until my stomach hurts. It makes me feel guilty and angry at myself, but then I'll do it again a couple days later.
I was worried that maybe I had developed a binge-eating disorder, but then I was reading about non-purge bulimia, and I seem to fit the description for that as well, because I sometimes fast or take laxatives to punish myself after a binge. I know I'd have to work with a therapist to find out exactly what's going on, but do you think I fit the signs of either of those disorders? Or is it just another part of my anxiety?
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