Eating disorder?

I've restricted food in the past, exercised in the past and even binged and purged. I think for the most part I've (with help) have gotten all that under control however I've noticed that when I'm stressed (even just a little) I often turn to food. Then feel god awful later when the stress has been resolved. Is this a form of an eating disorder also? Any suggestions to help alleviate or ideas were this stems from?

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It may be scarey for you, but there's a fairly straight forward explanation to what's going on here.

In the past you have used various 'mechanisms' to 'control' your feelings. For example, at one stage you used to restrict to help you create a sense of control and to (maybe) cover up issues that were troubling you. Then you realsied that restricting was a 'bad thing', so you switched to excessive exercising'. Guess what? You realsied that that too was bad, so you switched to binging & purging. All of these behaviours you have adopted are your ways of coping and they all provide you with lots of control. It takes a lot of effort to do any of the above and it gives you a *false* sense of control.

Now, you've adopted an attitude to food, which you use to calm yourself down. ie. If I eat I'll cover up the bad feelings. Trouble is, the bad feelings are only covered up for about 30 minutes following eating - and then all the bad feelings come back to the surface.

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