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OCD and BINGE EATING. Need help!

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Guys, I really don't know what to do with this problem. I've been living in hell for the past three years. Every morning I wake up with some kind of obsession or tension in my head. It's quite difficult to describe. Incredibly strong tension, mental and emotional. Something that is impossible to tolerate. You can't distract yourself from it. No matter what I do, no matter how I distract myself, it always wins. I would call it a meaningless obsession. During the day, it builds up, and after 4-5 hours after waking up, the feeling is strong enough to endure. But I continue to endure it, hoping that I will come up with something. After about seven hours, I start overeating. I can't say that this is exactly compulsive overeating, because I don't consume food at an incredible rate, but I eat everything I can until physical pain sets in. I can't explain why this senseless obsession is specifically related to food. I probably chose this method three years ago and formed strong neural connections in my head. I eat normally throughout the day and don't restrict myself; I don't have a restrictive eating disorder. I simply use food as a way to cope with this feeling. If at the beginning of my illness I did this once a week, now I overeat every day and spend 80% of my income on it. I have OCD, closer to pure OCD, and I understand how it works. I'm in stable remission and it rarely bothers me. I assume that all my obsessions were clearly connected to something, but here it's simply an initially unrelated, unbearable obsessive tension in my head. When I can't stand it, I commit a compulsion and overeat huge portions of food. With my OCD, I was afraid of something and created compulsions to avoid it, and I understand the logic, but in the case of food, there is no initial anxiety. The tension itself is empty and unrelated. It's just always been with me for three years. It hasn't gone away for a second, but my episodes of binge eating suppressed it for a while. Previously, it would last a week, and now it's one day. I don't want to wake up in the morning knowing that I'll have to face this feeling again, which is destroying me from the inside. I don't want to complain, guys, but my life is hell right now. I'm a hostage to this internal tension, and it makes me cry every day. Maybe you can help me. Maybe it's not OCD at all. I've really written dozens of pages trying to figure out what's going on with me.

Posted Jan 8, 2026, 2:51 AM UTC

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