Even while on antidepressants why I do I struggle with binge eating? Can someone help shed some light on it.?

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Wow. Of all the garbage on here this is actually a top notch question.

Eating disorders are tough. Most every counselor will admit that eating disorders are very hard to treat. The first thing is finding your trigger. What is it that triggers you to eat. Once you find that, then it is a matter of controlling it and learning to indentify the circumstances that lead up to it your trigger and then either removing yourself from the situation or in a more reaslistic sense manipulating the situation or just by being strong and realizing that you are stronger than your emotions.

The other componant can be a trigger food. For me, it's pizza. I can eat it every meal of every day and continue to eat it over and over again. but it's also about burning money for it. Just making a pizza (even from scratch) doesn't satisfy that hunger. It's about dropping the cash on it as well.

I myself am on Wellbutrin for anxiety, slight depression, and a nasty sleeping disorder. It helps with everything else but not the eating. I've got to control that myelf.

What you have got to be concerned about it switching vices. Don't replace an eating disorder with cutting or drugs/achohol. You've got to conquer the emotional trigger that controls you.

I hope this helps.

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i would highly suggest seeing a doctor. it could be chemical imbalance or something like that. other than that, try eating slow. that always helps. eat a bite, take ten deep breaths, and then eat another bite. i know, it's wierd, but it works! chop sticks help to slow eating too!

Please consider getting counseling to determine why you binge eat.

I do not know why you binge, but the last person that I knew that went on binges had compulsive disorder. They were 189 lbs,,, now they are around 390 lbs.

Again, I am not a professional, but I would suggest, seeing a professional.

O.K. There are alot of things that could be going on. Not the least of which is a need for change in the type of meds you're being prescribed, to eliminate the possibility that your problem is chemical. Now, that said, I recommend that you find a way to have multiple small meals spread throughout the day to ease your appetite between meals. Eating Dis-orders are addictive behaviors, and there-fore cannot be easily overcome. Eating is a requirement of our daily lives and so an addiction to eating is extraordinarily difficult to deal with because we can't just "quit the habit" as we might if we were kicking cigarettes or something of that nature. No our addiction is something that we must have the courage to face head on and LEARN to change within ourselves.
a very mighty struggle, but of the noblest sort ! Turn to those who TRULY are our loved ones. And ask for help when you feel overwhelmed by the temptations of the addiction. NO ONE overcomes an addiction alone !

hey, try this website,

www.recoveryourlife.com

You probably should get your blood-sugar levels checked as this could be causing you to want to binge. (Disrupted blood-sugars are also linked to mood swings and other symptoms of mental illnesses).

Ketogenic diets (low-carb) are effective in balancing one's blood-sugars. It is also well known that high protein diets are extremely effective in reducing appetite making it easier to lose weight, stay healthy and not binge. Lower-carb diets also help prevent diabetes and other related illnesses.
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