I agree. ED is highly stereotyped as being a teenager/young adult disorder. I would love to learn more about the development of eating disorders when one is older....like the behaviors and such develop later on in adult hood.
Sadly can't agree more. I'm such a person who never outgrew her anorexia who started at age 15. It just chronified and changed, and just as you said, it can be very adaptable to the current situation. Meaning I would easily switch between purging or restricting respective of the opportunities present or not. At this point I've been living with it longer than without. I'm an underweight 37 yo women, comorbidly struggling with other mental healt issues. And they influence each other. Also good you had a male example too. Just another stereoptype people often have, that EDs were a female thing only.
I continue to lose weight. I'm 64 yrs old, 5'7" and am now down to 106 at Dr today. I'm worried. I have no appetite. I keep telling my Dr,but they don't seem to see this is a problem.
I need to say it: Atypical Anorexia is just, Anorexia. It's a mental disorder, not a weight disorder. I started off overweight before developing the disorder and dropped to dangerously underweight. Also. I feel like people don't talk about Anorexia subtypes that much or completely misunderstand them. Bullimia, Binging, and Anorexia all overlap.
All eating disorders are primarily psychological, aren't they? They're about an unhealthy relationship with food, about using maladaptive coping mechanisms.
Atypical just means a criteria isn’t met. That doesn’t have to be the weight criteria. It can be another one of the symptoms. Same as with atypical bulimia. Of course the weight criteria is awful to begin with but that has nothing to do with it being atypical or not.
I dont really understand rumination disorder.. is it when you re-chew the food that you vomited back up into your mouth? And also do you have to be DIAGNOSED to have an eating disorder??
Thats how i feel like.. i feel like when i do this then its normal coz your only doing it to lose weight right? Like what harm could it do? But this is my mind playing tricks on me bcoz in reality is just.... idek..
right? i purge, binge and restrict. but, i don't binge enough to be a binge-eater, purge enough to be bulimic, and I'm not underweight, and I still eat too much to be anorexic. It's very misleading and I'm still confused, but I know my whole life was and will continue to spiral over my body, It's terrible, I know, but it's controls me, and has since I was 9. I'm a teen and I stopped going to real school after something, but after a few months of me not going and getting severely depressed (diagnosed), someone made comments on 'how much weight I lost'. I was 10kg down, and at that moment i felt good, but then it made me spiral into the worst body issues I ever had. to this day, I refuse to go to real school till I lose weight. (I am doing eschool now so dw abt my education. Since my focus on my body, other aspects of my depression have healed, others worsened.) I understand you on another level, and I hope you get diagnosed so you can get the help you need.
I was diagnosed as a Compulsive Overeater. My doctor put me on a no sugars diet...Hypoglycemic diet. She said that I overeat because I eat foods high on the glycemic index. I would eat a food high in sugar which would raise my bloodsugar....but then hours later my bloodsugar would start to crash....which would drive me to find another sugary food to eat to raise my bloodsugar. Hypoglycemic diet worked for me! I dropped 100 lbs and had so much energy.
Honestly, I wish I would have gotten help just in time. Unfortunately for me, I was diagnosed as prediabetic. I am the opposite of you, I have a hard time eating. Whenever I do eat, I eat large amounts of carb heavy foods or sweets. This diagnosis has changed my life.
I came here to say the same thing. I was recently diagnosed with it. And it would have been nice to see it added. Like does she even know what it is because I went years and years thinking I’m crazy because I knew my eating was disordered but I wasn’t anorexic or bulimic. My previous doctor never even heard of it and neither did my therapist!
Yeah, I hopped on here to see her talk about Arfid, and I had drinkerexia (technically it's called drunkerexia but I drank pop) in college that I never heard of. I have other disordered eating now, but I'm not as bad as I was when I was in school. She has an entire video devoted to Arfid, so maybe she doesn't think it fits into an invisible category.
I'd love to find someone that talked about ARFID without solely focusing on "sensory" and "adverse consequences" types, like in her video from a few years ago (which is still worth the watch). Everyone seems to focus on those two things, and never about the "apparent lack of interest in eating". It's also difficult to find info that isn't solely in context of children, hardly ever about adults with ARFID.
I was just diagnosed with it. I’m doing a research paper on it for my English course in college, and the effects of untreated ARFID are almost more dangerous, because of how restrictive some people can be with their disordered eating. It’s really sad. It was added to the DSM-5 only 10 years ago, but it’s crazy how no one still knows about it.
Is there any research on eating disorders and poverty? For example, I have skipped dinner for years to save money, and then sometimes I eat and then I feel terrible. When I make meals to take to work, I am very aware that this is just as much about trying to look normal to my coworkers as it is about eating.
Licensed therapist and PhD student here. Yes! Socioeconomic status and eating disorders are strongly correlated, but it's often missed by medical providers and others because of stereotypes, assumptions, or people making efforts to appear "normal" to hide the disorder.
I had an eating disorder in college because of this. I had what I call drinkerexia because I heard that term at some point. That was literally how I got through the day. I restricted my eating to get through the day too, because I was so busy, I only had time to eat when I got home at night. People who hadn't seen me in a while looked shocked when they saw me, and I didn't understand why. I was scared of gaining weight, but most of the time, it wasn't about body image.
Yes yes and yes. Audrey Hepburn's eating disorder started with food scarcity during WWII when she was a teen. I don't know that it was ever about body image for her, it certainly started as a necessity to deal with being hungry all the time as there wasn't enough food and she struggled with eating for the rest of her life.
@@kristinafisher9772 drinking instead of eating is a technique used by people who have anorexia, but I wonder if we can call it anorexia if you don't have body image issues and don't have fear to gain weight, can anorexia be just physical ? is it different from anorexia nervosa ?
@tr4sh.doll_ I did/do have a fear of gaining weight. I was also really competitive with myself and with others on how much weight I could lose. I don't know what changed after college, but I think they were all contributing factors. My way of thinking at that time and now is really hard to explain. I'm pretty sure I have body dysmorphia at the very least. I was always super skinny up until a certain age. I think something clicked when I saw people's reaction to how unnaturally skinny I had gotten because I didn't even realize I looked abnormal. It's possible my disordered eating is not as severe or could be a subtype. I have a tendency to fluctuate between different types of disordered eating.
I had no idea there was something called purging disorder. I was always just told I had bulimia when i never did the binge part. Thank you! Wow. And the A typical anorexia. I learned so many things in this video! Unbelievable. I wish I would have known so long ago. Thanks for all you do.
I read about purging disorder probably 10 years ago or so. I felt so validated, because I had the purging but not the binging. I would restrict, then eat like an apple or whatever, then purge. I was also at the gym 24/7…Since 2018 I’ve swung the other way. My meds for various things make me super tired, so exercising isn’t happening very often…!
This is really not talked about enough. It feels so terrible to not "look like" you have an eating discorder. It makes you feel like your being overdrammatic and making yourself a victim, even when you feel like your dying on the inside.
She might have a video detailing it. I’m surprised it’s not mentioned also. You can suggest she talk about it. She accepts video ideas on Sundays for the following couple of weeks.
@brittanywilcox7377. I think if you are subscribed to her channel you can send in questions on Sundays. It always pops up on my phone. @KatiMorton is really good about being responsive! 😊
Thank you for validating my struggles, Kati. I never fit the BED requirements because I don’t typically eat the massive amounts of food that practitioners say I have to eat to meet the requirement. But I do eat much more than the average person on a typical day. I feel out of control when eating my favorite foods, to the point of nausea, but I don’t purge. And I don’t compensate for it in any way. I just lay on the couch and promise myself to not eat that much again. It’s a vicious cycle that I can’t seem to break out of. 😢 So it seems to me I have Atypical BED.
I was treated for bulimia after thinking I had only BED. I can only imagine how hard it is to diagnose someone. Initially, I was convinced that I didn't have a problem that was serious enough to need IDP. I was wrong. It's honestly amazing that anyone ever gets diagnosed, let alone the correct diagnosis.
Thanks so much for these. Eating disorders are often seen as fitting specific stereotypes that are in the popular imagination, and I feel like many people don't understand that a broader range of thoughts and behaviors can fall under this.
Would you be willing to do a video or point me in the right direction for help with AFRID? It's a sensory related eating disorder mostly found alongside Autism. Everything I am finding is for helping non-autistic adults with autistic children not for actual autistic adults with AFRID. I'm not sure if I quite meet the offical criteria for diagnosis, but my problems are at least related and I want to be able to eat more "normally". This condition has also given me social anxiety about eating in front of people especially with unfamiliar meals.
Kati already has a video on ARFiD! It is hard to find resources that aren’t aimed at children and even harder to find those that aren’t aimed at those diagnosed with autism as well. I am a diagnosed ADHD/ARFiD adult and it’s so frustrating that there is so little for us out there.
I hope that more people & professionals talk about this. I have ARFID as well. It's difficult to locate good help for adults & it can be quite debilitating & harmful.
I have disordered thoughts but i want to wait to tell my psychiatrist and therapist because i feel like its not bad enough and im just making it up for attention
I LOVE this! I went from emotional eating/binge eating, to anorexia-purge type, which sounds like I had Purging Disorder. I ended up tearing a hole in my esophagus in my late 20’s…It was horrible. In 2022 I went to IP, I was Dx with “Bulimia with restriction”…It sounds like I have Atypical Bulimia…I’ve been both under weight and overweight. From 2018 until recently, the majority of my day I would stay busy and skip meals. Then from 6PM until I went to bed, I ate everything in sight…! I have a lot going on medically and my stress level is severely affecting my stomach…
Why is BMI still in use? Because of innertia. It takes time to change things people are used to, even if those things are wrong. BMI does not adequately represent body mass. For example, if you have high muscle mass (healthy eating, healthy exercising person), you will probably be mistakingly considered "obese" when looking at BMI, because muscles are heavier than fat.
I Suffered with Diabulimia for 15 years, it sucks and has killed so many girls i used to know. It gets so overlooked and still not even recognised medically 😢
Maybe because the whole menopause thing triggers weight gain in women. Aging seems to be a sin in our society. I'm 49 yeras old and I am extremely cautious about how I look.
I am 65 and when I was young I feel I came dangerously close to being anorexic via starvation. I actually do not feel that I need or are hungry enough for 3 meals per day, but I also have a tendency to feel 'not ok or enough' when I am about 20 pounds overweight, which would be common. I just can't seem to make that 20 pounds be acceptable. Is that an eating disorder?
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Thank you so much for talking about this. I absolutely relate to #4 Atypical Binge Eating Disorder. The guilt and shame is pretty intense. And I feel uncomfortable, with too much food in my stomach. I'll even want dessert after even though I'm uncomfortably full. The binging is definitely stress-induced. I'm glad that these milder versions are being talked about and taken more seriously. Food is often easy to turn to for comfort, and it can easily get out of control when we have no other quick way of dealing with stress. PS. You look great! ^^
What about people who’s eating disorder isn’t about food or weight gain, at all. But about a need for control in a space which feels out of their control ?
This has literally infuriated me! Anybody can suffer with anorexia at any body size or weight! The natural response to restriction via food or exercise is eventually binging on food! I won't name which 'invisible' eating disorders you've mentioned but in reality it's basically ANOREXIA! The criteria surrounding weight versus anorexia is currently being recognised and I hope the 'weight' aspect is discarded world wide!
I stopped carbs when I weighed in at 130 lbs at a mental health clinic; Ironically so. I got down to 99 lbs. To be honest at the time being skinny was my only measure of self worth
Omg, nobody else mentioned night eating disorder till now, and it happens to me all the time. I wake up to go to the bathroom and after i go to the kitchen and eat everything I was able to restrict to normal amounts during the day, my will power just disappears and I eat like 300 grams of chocolate. Thank you for talking about this, I thought this only happens to me 😅
I think what helps is avoiding triggers aka not going to kitchen at night but more importantly changing habits in the day and eating meals instead of restricted eating/grazing and staying up past my tiredness. Aka "revenge procrastinating bedtime"
@@CL-mn1yq yeah I agree, that is why I try to eat a healthy dinner mostly protein based to feel full before I go to sleep...Sometimes I succeed sometimes not, but I try 😅
Same. I have a huge problem with this. It’s not as bad when I’m home alone but when my husband comes home from work (he’s gone for weeks at a time and then comes home for two weeks) it gets worse. Embarrassingly enough, I’ve also woken up with completely melted ice cream bars on my chest and unopened bags of chips laying on the pillow next to me. I’ll never forget the time I watched my husband walk to the bathroom from bed with a damn skittle stuck to his back, which promptly fell off in the shower, confusing the hell out of him 😂😂
What is it when someone starves themself but isn't afraid of weight gain and doesn't have any body image issues related to weight? I did this when I was a teen and never understood it. I'd tell myself I wasn't hungry or more specifically I wasn't able to understand that I was hungry. I never weighed myself and still ate junkfood whenever I felt like it but I kept losing weight until I decided I was too skinny to be healthy and started eating more on purpose. Was it some form of ED?
This helped me a lot, because I started getting more self conscious about my body when I was going into 8th grade, and started to calorie count and weight myself. At first it was normal, and I didn’t do it often, but then I started limiting myself to one meal per day, weighing myself 2-4 times a day, and over exercising to loose weight if I ate a meal over 300 calories. I dropped 5-7 pounds but I wasn’t secretly underweight for my age and height, because the average was 100 and I weighed 87. I haven’t gotten diagnosed with anything though, and nobody really noticed, so im still not sure if I have an eating disorder.
I’m not really sure which category i would fall under, but i know i struggle with either an eating disorder, or disordered eating. I am considered morbidly obese by BMI standards, and i typically only eat one meal a day. I would consider it a binge meal as my portions are larger than what is necessary. I also feel guilty because i struggle with exercising due to anxiety. I tend to think it would be or is weird if i exercise because of my body shape and weight (even by myself, in my own home). If i do find that i can talk myself into some type of workout, it never lasts long because when i start to feel anxious i end up quitting. I tend to isolate myself from others because i am ashamed at how i look, and try to limit going outside as much as possible because i don’t want others to see me. With that being said, i do struggle from many other things as well, but do have a therapist and psychiatrist that i check in with regularly. The one thing that i have learned about myself through my therapy process is that sometimes i find it difficult to put into words how I’m feeling, or am embarrassed because i feel a certain way. I know when i was a teenager our health class in school really only focused on anorexia nervous, and bulimia. They may have touched on binge eating disorder a little both really only focused on the first two. Thanks Kati for the video.
This is extremely similar to what I deal with, it was kinda shocking to see it put to words, but also helped me feel not so alone, so thank you for sharing.
From what I've read it's before behaviours can be categorised as any of the ed's and people who are constantly dieting, picking up the lastest, no carbs, no this no that, dieting trends, don't have a good relationship w food or food freedom, but the behaviours aren't obsessive and haven't taken over their life and even thou they are unhappy about their body, for the vast majority of the time life takes precedence over the "diet" rather than when Ur entire life and day to day dealings are Ur eating disorder xx
I'm a walking example of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy so, idk what kind of ED I have but, I know I'm not getting enough calories into my body and there's foods that make me feel physically sick. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't have insurance so, there's no answer or treatment for me
Eating disorders and disordered eating, and the diet/weight loss industry and even what doctors tend to say about weight, are unfortunately all related.
I have atypical anorexia with occasional bulimic behavior and I can't tell you how many times I've been misunderstood and dismissed (especially by doctors who don't specialize in EDs) for being a normal weight. My ED medical complications manifest differently because it immediately leads to passing out all of the time and having a dangerous heart rate and I have to go to the hospital within hours or days. So as a result, I don't meet the weight loss criteria for anorexia, yet I still meet all the other criteria. I think a lot of the eating disorder cases you see in the media have also been enabled to an extreme extent, which is not the case for everyone.
THANK YOU so much for this video!!! I have felt for over a year that I have some sort of anorexia. My attempts at reaching out for help and support have consistently fallen flat and, at times, invalidated because I'm supposed to be thankful and how they wish they deal with the symptoms. It's to the point when I eat a standard portion of food, it makes me feel sick. Not retching, but headache, nausea, and other gastro symptoms. I don't get taken seriously because of my ADHD and I'm still overweight. I'm going to do more research and pursue it further because I hate this, my attempts to make myself get over it and be thankful for the weight loss has made things worse
Atypical Bulimia is the closest description I ever heard for my "eating habits".(I never puked- I thought about it and even wanted, but I never did) I got them under control now, more or less. I think about restricting food once in a while but never act on those thoughts because I don't wanna go back to where I was. I've struggled with emotional eating my whole life and it is still something I have to control a little better. A few years ago I started to just not eat for 1 or 2 days after emotional eating. Gladly I realized what I was doing wasn't the right way and I managed to get it under better control. I have never really talked to anybody about it, because it felt too invalid to call it anything like a ed, because one time I "starve" myself, and then I eat a lot again. It didn't fit in any category (or so I thought).But yeah, all in all, I got it under control rn:) I even got a better self-image now. I don't hate my body anymore. Only the negative comments of my parents throw me back sometimes and make me wanna "relapse", but I manage to not do it.
I was diagnosed with mental anorexia (and a few other disorders) .... at first I was like Wtf is mental anorexia , but thanks to your video, I guess it falls under atypical anorexia
@@bee42Sad I don't necessarily agree. I just think it isn't labeled an eating disorder because of the health and wellness complex industry. But they engage in a ton of restrictive eatings, cutting out whole food groups, etc. The obsession with weight loss in itself, and getting gains. It would just mean gym culture would actually have to be critically assessed.
It’s not in the diagnostic manual..it’s essentially a made up term..from ortho meaning to straighten or perfect..like in orthodontics (teeth)or orthopaedics (bones)
@@meherenow I yet again. Have to emphasize. That classifying Orthorexia as an eating disorder would mean questioning gym culture in its whole. ANd this is why people deny it. They are still focused on weight, the emphasis is on leanness and to morph their body to the extreme of leanness instead of skinny. They focus on calories. They restrict whole food groups. There is a focus around gain. It is pervasive in gym culture. And anxiety about the nutrition and the health of food, etc. Give it a new name, but it fits in the criteria of being a whole ED by itself. But we wouldn't do that because the medical industry is tied in the gym/wellness industry complex.
@@WulfLovelace it doesn’t need a separate classification all the others diagnoses adequately cover it..most treatment centres address all the concerns you have listed as standard Ed interventions…nothing would be gained by having an additional category..the focus in Ed treatment is now on individualised treatment plans based on symptoms presented…given sufferers have a need and angst to fit diagnostic criteria it would almost be more helpful if a single Ed diagnosis was given and only medical professionals knew the sub categories for treatment purposes. Diagnosistic are to assist treatment, they arent labels or identities
What about atypical or typical binge eating symptoms with it being emotional or not fully but it doesn't make me feel bad about me eating that much, and basically all the same symptoms
Atypical Anorexia sounds like what im dealing with, having OCD and Perfectionism I'm afraid of me working out too much becoming a harmful obsessive habit. 😢
Can you please help me? I am at a loss of understanding what's happening. I don't think I eat abnormally more, but I am gaining wait drastically. Right now I am at my heaviest at 75kgs. I have never been this big before. I am 5 feet tall, so below 50 kgs is ideal for me. I don't know I am gaining so much weight, there is never much food around at home, hardly any snacks yet I am going weight, what could be the reason?
as someone with atypical anorexia who used to have anorexia nervosa, i hate my diagnosis. i spend most of my time trying to get back to my sick body and i’m worse mentally than i was when i was underweight. but of course, no one is really concerned about my behaviors because i don’t look anorexic
This was very interesting. Thank you for explaining eating disorders. I was never diagnosed with eating disorder of any kind, I can see red flags in my behaviour with food and body image. I grew up being told by my father's partner that I was fat, even though no doctor ever said so. A past partner said to me if I ever got fat he would dump me. So from there I always have been extremely cautious with how I look. Most of my adult life I ran a calorie deficit to make sure I don't get fat. Sometimes other people will trigger a trauma or disorder in some people. As for my father's partner, she regularly insulted my body image but never my intelligence so it says a lot about her.
I wish there were more videos about Diabulimia. Is there anyway that you could address this issue that Type 1 Diabetics may have as a form of eating disorder? I met with my diabetes dietitian today and she has referred me to a local Nutrition Counseling LLC that can address my eating disorder. I know that it is a dangerous disorder to have but it is difficult because PCOS (polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and other medications such as Insulin makes it hard to lose weight. I have lost 8 lbs in a month by under bolusing my insulin and restricting my food.
hi! rumination isn't an eating disorder. rumination syndrome is an involuntary condition, where the brain and nerves are damaged, and basically percieve all food as poison, so, the stomach and abdominal muscles crunch and condense, and that forces food back up. this does have links to anxiety and stress, but it is not something that patients have any control over. it is not a method of purging, as it is not intentional in any way. loved how you explained everything else so well, but please, don't spread misinformation about an already rare and misunderstood condition!! - from, someone recently diagnosed with rumination, following nerve damage from illness.
I guess one thing I want to know is what is the difference between disordered eating and a full blown eating disorder. I feel like I ride such a fine line, due to fear of cholesterol (working on it).
I'm not diagnosed, but I constantly have thoughts of purging, binging, or starving myself. I am overweight and feel very conscious about myself, and my weight. I want to lose weight, but it's so hard.
my eating disorders always comes up when im depresed and quite often that is the first sing that im becoming depresed and then the deprestoin kicks in then the suasidele thinking but at this point i just cant eat like at all and i might find one safe food and i will only eat once a day or every few days is this an eating disorder
I'm number 4. I just did it because I was manic. I'm a Borderline and I drink a lot. I ran out of alcohol and went straight for the food. A LOT of it. I binge so much food I throw up, but it's only every once in a while. I remember I did it in front of my friend one time (because I was upset about something) and she was shocked because I was piling and stuffing food into my mouth so fast that I'm surprised I didn't choke. I know a lot of people "hate" labels, but thank goodness there is one for what I'm going through. Labels are good in my opinion.
Is there any research on eating disorders and food allergies? Since allergies can cause anxiety about eating and allergies can also be psychosomatic. So I feel like there could be a big connection between the two... I have food allergies and at this point I'm not sure anymore if I have an eating disorder too, or if it's just because I have allergies...
It's really important to be talking about lesser discussed disorders. It's appalling how many doctors will never discuss eating patterns or thought patterns with a patient unless they fit specific visual criteria. Or they make assumptions based on the visual and don't ask the right questions. I can't even count how many times I've mentioned being light headed because i haven't eaten that day in front of a doctor and they didn't say a word, or if they did it would be a warning about over eating.
Bulimia nervosa here 🙋🏽♀️ after being hospitalized and gotten help from different psychologists, i still struggle. This has been going on for about 8 years now. Yes i will never give up, but yes it’s very hard to break that cycle and it still is, because I haven’t been able to break it yet. The thing is that i’m happy with myself and accept myself for who i am. It’s just that i has become so “normal” for me and been living with it for so long. It has just shaped into a persistent habit i still can’t seem to break.
I tend to oscillate between restrictive eating and binge eating. Because my weight gain and weight loss range is only about 10 lbs, no one seems to notice. I've never had a healthy relationahip with food my entire life, and I used to suffer from binge eating + bulimia when I was younger. I don't force myself to vomit anymore but I admit the desire is still there.
Serious question: I withhold food from myself at times because I feel like I have to ‘earn’ it, is that an eating disorder? Specifically when it comes to the gym, most of my food contains protein which isn’t cheap & so if I go all or nothing with the gym & stop going for a period of time I will not touch the food I bought most of the time, there has been times I’ve barely ate or I’ll eat what my mum makes a lil but I didn’t know it was an issue till I mentioned it to a counsellor once & she was like you don’t withhold food, food is a necessity, you don’t earn it
Hey great video. I don't know if this is a recognized eating disorder but I would love to know more about what people call "picky eating". I feel like a lot of people struggle wirh this, parents don't know how to handle it and it is misunderstood.
I was atypical anorexia and ARFID for the bulk of my young life started around maybe 8 or 9until age 24. I learned to eat a more normal diet along side my youngest child as he transitioned from baby food. Once I learned to enjoy more foods things switched the other way like I have been making up for all the food I didnt eat and now I seem to be unable to stop eating. Atypical binge and night eating syndrome. I have gained a fair amount of weight over the last few years... I am afraid I will just keep gaining because I am afraid if I try to diet that I will go back the other way. I logically understand how to eat a healthy diet but I just cant seem to put this into practice. This is a very frustrating way to be. I sometime think taking Ozempic could help as it makes you feel full and stop cravings and help my body and mind reset. Or is that a cop out? I just know I am feeling out of control and at the mercy of food.
The first 25 years of my life I was full blown anorexic (many kilos under what I should have been) and when I got healthy in my 30's and 40's my NM said I had a huge butt. That's when I realised she was the cause of my illness. I still think about it but not as much.
OH MY GOD YALL I didn't realize night eating syndrome was a thing. I have that. I'm going to do so much research now I'm so excited there's a name for it
I’m always depressed and to punish myself I just don’t eat and then I get to the point where I no longer desire food and I’ve lost so much weight I don’t know how to stop or who to talk to no one around me understands they think I’m secretly on drugs or something it’s just hard I’m on RU-vid trying to find any help I can
wait i’m confused how does the last one work? Like does the person deliberately do something to bring the food back up, if so isn’t it just like the purging one?
I'm so happy I found your channel! I'm glad you talk about eating disorders with great examples without demonizing them, but I just wanted to share my opinion without harming anyone. I've been struggling with anorexia since I was 13, and I've seen many things and talked to many people about this disorder, and from what I gathered is that osfed is such a hurtful diagnoses for any patient with an eating disorder, everyone talks about how eating disorders are not just about weight and yet here we are with this diagnoses, same as with atypical an, that to have a 'real' eating disorder you have to be underweight, which is definitely not true! and with atypical bulimia, it proves the fact that you have to get more sicker to get the diagnoses of just bulimia. anyone who has recovered or is going through an ed can agree that these minor diagnoses are never enough and you have to get even worse just to get to the real deal, but i'm not speaking for everyone of course. I hope this made sense and I haven't offended anyone, this is soley my opinion and I am open to discussion! everyone's eating disorder is valid no matter what you have been labelled by the doctor :)
This video is incredibly helpful. I definitely struggled with disordered eating as a teenage athlete. This is video is very helpful to understand the broader names for disordered eating.
Is texture aversion an eating disorder? I’ve had it since I was a child. I’ve been told it was a way of taking control as a young child. It has gotten worse as I am older and if I experience anxiety everything has the wrong texture and I can’t eat.
I am so stuck because i don't know where i would go, purging disorder or atypical anorexia? What is it then if i never binge, only purge normal-small sized meals, over-exercise and restrict my food intake and i'm at a normal weight? I fit everything for atypical anorexia but as far as i know 'pure anorexics' dont purge or? Ik no one here should diagnose strangers over internet and those are just labels but i just feel so invalid for not fitting somewhere :/
Im glad you said the BMI chart is out of date. I lost 40 lbs in hopes of donating my eggs. But my BMI is still too high. I just really wanted to do a good thing and make enough to put a down payment on a house. Its crazy
I felt my exhusband had an eating disorder not mentioned here. He had a lot of trouble figuring out the executive functions of how to prepare food or acquire food. He would go many hours not eating at all and then get so hungry, he had to eat now but it’s midnight and all the stores and restaurants are closed.
Definitely sounds like a symptom of neurodivergence, not an eating disorder. Does he have an issue with body image? That seems to be the root of most of these. I suspect I have autism and/or ADHD and I forget to eat, struggle to focus on meal planning and preparation, and wait too long to eat so that I get nauseated and nothing seems edible.
@@krickett8538yes I have adhd and I have trouble getting food(despite being a teenager) so I’ll often skip meals. Or hyperfocus and completely forget to eat. The problem is my grandpa has been making unneeded comments about my body and how much I’m eating lately so now it’s becoming more deliberate decision of not to eat 😅. But my adhd also contributes a lot to
if I fast constantlly due to lack of desire to eat, is that an eating disorder still? it's not that I think im overweight, im dangerously underweight, yet Ive struggled with eating for nearly ten years, how would I go about adressing this with my doctor, is it self harm, or an eating disorder I cant tell. I want to gain weight just cant bring myself to eat, because Im not hungry enough
If we are using food to help us cope with how we feel... and focusing on fasting, eating, exercise, etc for most of our days, then it's an eating disorder. I would let your doctor know that you struggle to eat regularly and need to see a therapist who can help. xoxo
I can never eat when I feel anxious, scared and extra stressed. After 7 years of constant trauma, my appetite disappeared and I am never hungry. I feel like I have no stomach. This is purely anxiety / anhedonia / depression-related, but I also have had some form of eating disorder since age 14 and I'm 45 now. I'm still not quite sure which one(s) I have.
Hello. 46 year old female. Have been inpatient spending 8k in 2005. Instead of rhe goal of being a survivor of EDNoS (Eating disorder not otherwise specified) i ended up divorcing my husband and love of my life and we had 2 babieS. My kids were alientaed and over 40 k was spent saving shared parenting. My eating manifested to drugs alcohol and men while still being a succesful women in order to pay all these bills. I am currently remarried happily to a beyond wonderful man. I have never atopped any of the behaiors except drugs. My question is ro everyone...can we beat this? I have the tools. I have the docs. I lost me a long time ago. Comsodering going inpatient. I need to. The money will kill this marriage too. Where should i go? How do we trust anyone? Thanks
