Some people are so fixated on being thin or attractive that they can’t even have a functional relationship with food. While this is perfectly understandable, it can also cause problems in relationships as well as in the workplace. It’s also common for people with eating disorders to have other disorders as well, such as anorexia, and those with eating disorders often struggle with other illnesses (such as anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and ADHD) as well.
There are several disorders that can occur with anorexia, such as bulimia, and a lot of people with eating disorders are also diagnosed with an anxiety and depressive disorder, but if you want to know what disorders commonly co-occur with anorexia, you can check out the Eating Disorders and Related Disorders in Adolescents section of the NIH Eating Disorders Association website.
In my experience, I’ve been surprised by the number of people who say they have trouble eating when they’re depressed. While I generally agree with that assessment, I have to say I’m a bit more surprised when people say they have trouble eating when they’re not depressed. In my experience, depression can take a lot of the fun out of food.
Depression also can bring on an eating disorder, and vice versa. Ive heard from a number of sources that patients with depression and eating disorder are frequently prescribed drugs to help manage their eating disorder. It also can be a reason that a person with depression eats, especially if they have a family history of eating disorders.
One reason I wanted to talk about this is because I see it frequently when I talk to young teenagers. I have a daughter and a son, and when I talk to them about their eating, they often don’t know what to say or what to think. “I feel different when I eat.” “I always feel weird when I eat.” “I don’t know what I’m eating.
To me, that’s a pretty normal reaction. I have an eating disorder, I used to have a lot of anxiety, and I used to lose my appetite all the time. I used to be a compulsive eater, so I had some of my symptoms there too. But that was before I got diagnosed with anorexia. What I’ve learned through a years of researching eating disorders is that people with eating disorders are often more likely to have other eating disorders or depression.
It turns out that disorders like anorexia and bulimia aren’t just mental health disorders. Studies have reported a significant overlap in the rates of both disorders. As one study put it, “The evidence suggests that eating disorders and depression have a high comorbidity, and that they may be more strongly related to one another than they are to the disorders themselves.
While people with eating disorders may be more prone to having other eating disorders, depression is a real physical illness. It is not simply a mental health issue, and it can come in the form of a physical ailment. Sometimes it is just depression and other times it is other severe forms of depression. In one study, over 20% of women with depression experienced anorexia and more than half of all women with anorexia had experienced bulimia.
What does this have to do with eating disorders? Well, anorexia is more than just an eating disorder, which is why a person with eating disorders may also have depression. Anorexia is a behavioral disorder that can occur in individuals with a medical illness. Depression can also be a medical illness. Both depression and anorexia are serious illnesses that can lead to death. However, eating disorders themselves are usually just misdiagnoses.
I don’t think that there is any correlation between eating disorders and eating disorders. I don’t think that eating disorders are related to food in any way, shape, or form. Many eating disorders are related to people’s emotions. Perhaps this is why there is such a large overlap between eating disorders and depression. Perhaps this is why women with eating disorders are more likely to have depression as well.