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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 521130" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>I struggled with anorexia and bulimia throughout my teens and 20s. For me, anxiety wasn't really the big culprit, but Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) + more than my fair share of Aspie rigidity were contributing factors.</p><p></p><p>I became obsessed with the numbers on the scale. I even bought a digital scale with my allowance so that I could see the numbers rather than trying to guess at where the pointer appeared on my parents' scale. I used to weigh myself up to 15x per day: before and after eating, exercising, purging, using the washroom, anything that would result in those numbers changing. I used to keep notebooks and charts full of statistics: what I ate, how much I weighed, times of weigh-ins, how much activity and what type, blah blah blah. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) was a huge factor in all of this.</p><p></p><p>The other main contributor was competitiveness. I was in competitive dance throughout my teens, and anorexia is a competitive sport like no other. The girls in my dance troupe were always comparing ourselves to each other and to professional dancers. Who could do the splits? Who could do a back bend with the deepest arch? Who had the smallest upper thigh measurement? Who could go the longest without eating anything? It was a brutal environment, but each girl fed on the other's behaviour -- we learned tricks from each other and egged each other on to worse and worse behaviour (which I think is why your support group doesn't allow discussions of vices, UAN. Too much opportunity to enable rather than help each other).</p><p></p><p>But I don't remember feeling anxious, except in the space between bingeing and purging when I had an overwhelming amount of food in my body and felt a desperate need to "get rid of it".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 521130, member: 3907"] I struggled with anorexia and bulimia throughout my teens and 20s. For me, anxiety wasn't really the big culprit, but Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) + more than my fair share of Aspie rigidity were contributing factors. I became obsessed with the numbers on the scale. I even bought a digital scale with my allowance so that I could see the numbers rather than trying to guess at where the pointer appeared on my parents' scale. I used to weigh myself up to 15x per day: before and after eating, exercising, purging, using the washroom, anything that would result in those numbers changing. I used to keep notebooks and charts full of statistics: what I ate, how much I weighed, times of weigh-ins, how much activity and what type, blah blah blah. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) was a huge factor in all of this. The other main contributor was competitiveness. I was in competitive dance throughout my teens, and anorexia is a competitive sport like no other. The girls in my dance troupe were always comparing ourselves to each other and to professional dancers. Who could do the splits? Who could do a back bend with the deepest arch? Who had the smallest upper thigh measurement? Who could go the longest without eating anything? It was a brutal environment, but each girl fed on the other's behaviour -- we learned tricks from each other and egged each other on to worse and worse behaviour (which I think is why your support group doesn't allow discussions of vices, UAN. Too much opportunity to enable rather than help each other). But I don't remember feeling anxious, except in the space between bingeing and purging when I had an overwhelming amount of food in my body and felt a desperate need to "get rid of it". [/QUOTE]
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