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Eating Disorders

Eating disorders can result in persons being consistently overweight or underweight due to their dietary habits. People who are overweight due to their eating habits frequently resort to food when they experience a variety of negative feelings such as depression or anxiety. A constant feeling of depravation even though one is clearly overweight is a common experience in persons who suffer from an eating disorder.

On the other hand, we've all seen people (usually, but not limited to young women) who seem obsessed with their weight or body image and who think they are fat when they are clearly quite thin. These people are also obsessed with food. Sometimes they will simply avoid food as much as possible. Others will eat, then regurgitate what they have eaten when they are in private.

Eating disorders are inevitably a source of intense discomfort, depression and anxiety and can often be life threatening.

If you suspect that you or someone you know suffers from an eating disorder try the following quick test:

1. Do you spend a lot of time worrying about your weight?
2. Do others appear to not take your worries about your weight as seriously as you do?
3. Do you purposely throw up what you've eaten?
4. Are you a "yo yo" dieter?
5. Are you clearly over weight but never seem to have the "umph" to do something about it?
6. Do you constantly diet but fail to lose weight?
7. Is exercise anathema to you?

If you can answer yes to any of the above questions perhaps you should consider the possibility that you suffer from some form of Eating Disorder.