Thread 83071218

I think I might have an eating disorder. When I'm not prompted to eat, I just don't. It's like if I decide not to eat, I can go for days without food and feel no real consequences. I live with my family, and my mother has always pushed me to eat, when I was a kid, she even cried because I refused food for so long.

As soon as no one's there to tell me to eat, I stop again. I think it's psychological.

Today I was home alone and tried to eat a bag of chips, but I only had a few before feeling disgusted and throwing them away. I don't know what's happening, and I want to understand how to fix this.

If you do some exercise you'll feel hungrier.

>>83071218 (OP)
you will lose your eating disorder when you start living on your own

>>83071218 (OP)
Sounds like you're depressed. Do you also sleep very long or very short hours?

>>83071236
You could be right, maybe it's just because I never feel hungry, so if I don't eat for a while, I start eating because of survival mode

>>83071254
Yes, I sleep for short hours, but I don't know if I'm depressed. It's not like I want to kill myself

>>83071227
Can I do any exercise for free? I could start running my neighborhood

>>83071264
Not everyone who is depressed wants to kill themselves anon

>>83071264
Wanting to kill yourself is not a direct symptom of being depressed, that comes after being unable to feel anything for extended periods of time. Do you feel like that often? If that's the case then you might have a neurochemical imbalance as I mentioned.

>>83071277
a ok, but then why is eating connected to depression?

>>83071280
No, I think I feel emotions, but sometimes I dissociate from my body like I'm just a spectator

>>83071286
Because it causes loss of interest in things. I have depression and I dislike eating just because I'm not interested in doing it. Like many other things, I'm not interested in it so I usually just forget to do or trying to force myself to do it feels like pulling teeth.

>>83071325
Well, I think I have a loss of interest. Right now, nothing is engaging, but it's not like I don't feel emotions when I hear a funny joke, I laugh, and I can empathize with other people, like my mother, when they are anxious for me

>>83071272
If you like it sure. Just body weight exercises like situps, press ups, etc, are effective. Take it easy at first though. I used to have a supressed appetite and it worked for me and improved my mood too.

>>83071365
ok thanks bro

>>83071357
Depression most of the time doesn't stop you from feeling emotions. You can have depression and still be able to laugh at stuff sometimes.