Is it true? Options

[Tomates]

I was watching a show and they had a quote from American journal of psychiatry that girls who suffer from anxiety are twice as likely to develope and eating disorder as adults?

Is that really true? It seems a bit far fetched to me.

[Tomates]

its just kinda scary to me. I have some anxiety problems and im also really skinny, i never worry about "omg im eating so much im going to get fat!" but i do definately want to get in shape? But not to where i want to loose weight and such.

Though i do get anxious when i eat in front of people, im always afraid they are judging on how i eat, thanks to the harassment i use to get in middle school.

Im more afraid of something happening in the future for me i guess and that statistic freaked me out a bit.

[karmakiller]

its just kinda scary to me. I have some anxiety problems and im also really skinny, i never worry about "omg im eating so much im going to get fat!" but i do definately want to get in shape? But not to where i want to loose weight and such.

I have anxiety, and I hate to eat front of people, especially if I am by myself. I know that they don't care, because they more than likely aren't paying attention to me, but I'd much rather eat where there isn't a lot of people.

I agree that a lot of it comes down to control. When you have anxiety you like to control your surrounds and keep things structured so that it doesn't stress you out. And someone may just feel that they don't have much control over their environment, but they do have control over what they eat and how much they weigh.