Does This sound like I could be forming a eating disorder?

[Anonymous]

I worry about this a lot.. I have the worst social anxiety ever I suffer from major depressive disorder and my anxiety has caused me to have horrible anger issues. the passed month and a half I haven't been eating at first I thought this was just because of stress but now I feel weird eating in front of people I feel as if my friends are starring at me if I eat with them at lunch sometimes I go days without eating then I binge eat I'll eat so much to the point where I feel like my stomachs gonna explode then I won't eat for days after that.. and the cycle repeats. I've always been under weight my entire life because I have an insanely high metabolism. but this so bad
i never feel hungry. i have to force myself to binge eat because I get scared
my hair has thinned and I'm so tired and can't sleep and my weight loss has made my period so abnormal. when I binge eat it's at four in the morning when noones awake and can watch me. i just feel everything about me is disgusting..

[Drooogie4]

Yes that's definitely a disorder. I feel you, be been on the anorexic and bulimic end.
You need to eat and not purge. Both are critical to your health.
If you'd don't eat, you'll loose hair (I did), your skin gets dry and dull, you're weak.. And you can get all kinds of issues being malnutritioned.
Bulimia can cause malnutrition too , especially depending on how much you purge.
But throwing up will get you faster.
It wrecks your throat and teeth, esophagus. It can cause you to develop an irregular heartbeat (which I already had and it got worse).
Your whole gut gets inflamed. You'll get sick for no reason, even long after you've stopped. Diarrhea, massive bloating, ulcers..
And, I still throw up involuntarily. I can't stop it sometimes and I guarantee that's why.

Don't abuse your body, you really will regret it

[RebelOfNowhere]

It could be. I'm not an expert, but if you're developing an eating disorder it seems like it's the product of the other things you are struggling with.

Please, please, try to summon the courage to seek help about this. I know it's hard, especially with anxiety (at least it was for me), but you could end up in the hospital or worse if you keep going like this.

If you can't summon the courage for yourself, do it for others. Do it for your friends and family who care about you, and for all the people in your school who would feel terrible if something happened to you. You NEED to seek help. Send an email to your schools counseling office and set up an appointment with them. Nobody wants to see you suffer and be sick.

[Lovelinefan]

Yeah sounds like eating disorder for sure. Are you seeing anyone for your depression and anxiety? You should be, and should bring this up with them and let them help. Better to nip this problem in the bud before it gets out of control.

[Asker]

I have talked to my doctor about it and all she did was put me on vyvanse to help me focus on school because she thinks school is my only stressor when it's not with how bad my anxiety is EVERYTHING is a stressor or a trigger to a panick attack I started crying this morning at school just because I thought there were to many people in the hallway. my dad has asked me if I think I have an eating disorder and I just said I don't know. my brother was hurt bad in a car accident and I just don't want to stress my parents out even more then they are with him

[Lovelinefan]

It sounds like you're in a rough situation, but it also sounds like you have parents that love you and care about you (which believe it or not isn't always that common, so you're lucky!).
I'm sorry to hear about your brother's car accident, but I think letting your parents know that you're having this problem and that it's not something that a pill can magically fix is important, you really should be seeing a therapist on a regular basis, to help with the anxiety and depression AND the eating disorder.
It will cause your parents more stress and heartache if you let these problems fester and go untreated, and it sounds like the doc you've been seeing just wants to slap a prescription on you to cover up the problems.
Please be honest with your parents and let them help you find a good therapist/psychiatrist who can spend time with you, talk with you about the problems your facing, and help you work through them. Won't be fixed over night, but is totally worth the investment of time and $