Are eating disorders addictions?

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Registered: 02-12-2007
Are eating disorders addictions?
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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 10:48pm

Our preacher taught about men looking at porn today and while I usually would have just ignored what he was saying and read my bible, I actually paid attention and applied it to myself. Porn is an addiction and I think that eating disorders are too. Once I started starving myself I couldn't stop. It took the threat of going into the hospital to get me to eat again. When you take drugs you have to keep uping the dose to get a high. Well, with eating disorders you have to restrict more and more to get the satisfaction of starvation. Do yall think that eating disorders are addictions?

~Alex~

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Registered: 12-13-2006
Sun, 04-29-2007 - 11:33pm

Alex,


You raise a good point. I think in essence it can be considered an addiction. It does have a lot of similiarities of other addictions like alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc. For example, thinking that you keep a secret or that you think that you have control over it. Sometimes a lot of treatments for those addictions are the same they use in eating disorders.

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Registered: 09-06-2005
Mon, 04-30-2007 - 10:04am

Hi Alex, very good

 

 

~Diana~