Do you think i do?

[xXKatXx4]

So, I've just been diagnosed with depression and im on meds im a trying to recover but kinda hopless cutter, blah blah blah. yes i know im only 16 and have so many issues what a self centered, ungrateful bratt. but i thought id ask anyways

But anyways my psycologist and psyciatrist seem to think i have an eating disorder... but i dnt think so...or at least i didnt, and now im unsure.
Yes i do weigh myself every few days,
I do feel guilty for eating,
I do eat less when i find ive gained a small amount of weight,
I call myself fat,
look in the mirror and critisize my body alot,
But I do still eat,
and Im at a healthy weight, my weight is healthy for someone as short as me,
I dont throw up,
I dont starve myself like go more then a day without a meal,
I dont even workout obsessively anymore,
so do i have an eating dissorder?

I dont think so, but ive been wrong about stuff before

i cant possibly diagnose you of course.... but i see EDs on a continuum.... people have a varying amount of ED behaviours/ symptoms. perhaps it is possible for somone to have an ED yet their behaviours very mild, or showing themselves more as unhealthy THOUGHTS.

another idea is that if you're depressed then you may have symptoms similar to that of an ED.

think im tying myself in knots here!

i wonder if a diagnosis is all-important: the question is how are you feeling? what are you thinking? how are you coping? what's your quality of life? how is your health? are you safe? etc

just my point of view
x

[Paper_Tigers]

Hey there,
Firstly I want to say, just because you're 16 doesn't mean your problems aren't any less relevant than that of say an older person. Depression can hit no matter your age, gender, background etc.

But secondly.
Your psychologist or psychiatrist wouldn't throw around diagnoses if they didn't believe that you might have a problem. ED's are complicated. You can have an ED without falling into the complete "anorexic" or "bulimic" criteria. Although you may not think you have an eating disorder, you may also be in denial at the same time because ED's tend to mess with your head at let you think you're fine when really you're falling apart at the seams.
But the behaviours that you have described here are pretty, not serious, but worrying.
Although you may be a healthy weight for your height (By the way, weight isn't allowed be posted here) doesn't mean your thoughts are healthy.
The fact that it hasn't gone to the extremes, as in, you're not seriously underweight and in need of weighing every week or so means that it can be dealt with sooner and you returning back to normal ways of thinking, because trust me, feeling guilty after everything you eat and weighing yourself every few days and thinking you're fat even though you're at a healthy weight really aren't healthy ways of thinking.
I hope this helps somewhat.
Keep safe and PM me if you need someone to talk to x