@Cat O Yes, I see what you mean. Glutamate, To avoid stuckness, neuroplasticity needs to make it so a person can bounce-back, out of an episode of stuckness (loop) (my best-I-can-do understanding of article). For “stress” read also perceived stress. Perception can be that ability to redirect, for perception to be changeable-the phenomenon of, quickly recover, e.g. in the case of rejection sensitivity dysphoria (possibly only found under ADHD, and not formally a thing, but) as it is described, RSD fits our daughter’s eating disorder behaviours and possible thoughts when experiencing an episode with chronic health issues, anorexia, a mental illness. Re stress and perception of stress, and glutamate, a neurotransmitter: “… chronic stress can lead to malfunctioning of the glutamate system and reduced neuroplasticity.” “In the hippocampus, chronic stress leads to increased glutamate release, impaired LTP, atrophy of the apical dendrites, and learning and memory deficits …”, “In the prefrontal cortex, chronic stress leads to decreased glutamate release, impaired LTP, reduced dendritic spines, and impaired attention …”, “In the amygdala, chronic stress leads to decreased glutamate release, impaired or enhanced LTP, dendritic hypertrophy, increased dendritic spines, and anxiety …”, “Glutamate system dysfunction has been implicated in several pre-clinical and clinical studies of mood and disorders.” “… several glutamatergic genes affecting different kinds of receptors have been implicated in mood disorders …”, “Several glutamatergic agents have been demonstrated to effectively decrease depressive symptoms in people with MDD and bipolar disorder …” Maybe over-exercising is unconscious self-medicating? “Physical exercise leads to increase levels of both glutamate and GABA (Maddock et al., 2016), resulting in participants feeling energized and focused while also experiencing psychological calm.” Article: Glutamate: The Master Neurotransmitter and Its Implications in Chronic Stress and Mood Disorders, 2021 Oct 29.

@Cat O My daughter’s dad had seizures. I know any understanding of her perceived experience would have helped us help her. Meantime, coincidence that your seizure medication helped with movement. Outside that, overlap with ANA and lots of things (ADHD, OCD, ADD), our daughter, forever27, was participating in a dual diagnosis study, wondering whether she had autism-often she’d try to get at the root of anxiety-ANA, rather than see eating as the cure and not-eating as the illness (Greta Thunberg was dual ANA and autism, and my niece’s son is mute autism). Our daughter was very empathetic, sympathetic though, and it seems not unusual for ANA people to believe they can sense people’s feelings on entering a room, though wrongly, my example as, being told I am annoyed or angry and having to argue to persuade her I was thinking nothing and not anything she decided I was. I wonder whether seizure medication as helpful, is possibly a new line of thinking for treating some ANA. Thanks for this.

@Cat O back when I first was in the ED community it was all vegan now they're all keto.

​​@@dietcokehead350project shapeshift? I know your name.

Easy. Just did :)

@@moi8998 Heck yeah

whatever cardio you did before, cut it on half.

@@topazzz1546ok, thank you very much

Your decision if you wanna reduce it or go cold turkey. Both approaches work, it just depends on the individual :)

Lol I only eat eggs, bacon and any meat that isn’t high in carbs, on a good day I only consume 10-15 carbs throughout the day, on my bad days I just purge til I can’t no more and I don’t really wanna purge cause I don’t even eat a lot to begin with

Craving sweets is definitely strange

6 years on. It interests me to know how you are, whether you recovered from binging, think it is possible. Anxiety interests me, do you figure anxiety drives binging, or that illness drives itself.

The quotations around "eating disorder" and the fact that this is posted by the UCSD Eating Disorders center, should imply that the question is more about how such disorders are classified, and the content should imply questioning it as a Physiological Disorder.

Mar 2023, 7 yrs on. It interests me to know why you were looking to lose weight and how you are doing? Were you seeking material to trigger a condition of anorexia that you have, do you have anorexia?, or was it just weight-loss diet you were looking for? Dr Keyes talked about brain (function and chemistry) but only vaguely about anxiety.

Do you want a cookie for that?

@@annasvetlova8651 quite the opposite!