Am i anorexic?

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well i never eat breakfast or lunch at school. i generally eat dinner but sometimes i dont. my boyrfriend thinks i am and he says it upsets him?

Category: asked June 18, 2013

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The skipping of meals really doesn't determine if you are anorexic or not. It's WHY you skip meals. Are you simply not hungry? Does food make you slightly uncomfortable?

If you're skipping meals as a means to feel in control of yourself or your life, if you are skipping meals to punish yourself, if you are skipping meals because you feel a fear of food or gaining weight, if you skip meals because you don't think you deserve food, then you're probably anorexic.If you skip meals because you just don't feel hungry or don't think about food often then you may not have a problem.
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@harleyshammer Thank you.

A. A refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g. weight loss leading to a maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected, or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected).
B. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.
C. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.

That is what constitutes anorexia; it isn't just not eating, it is the unhealthy and sometimes delusional view of ones image to such a degree that unhealthy measures are taken. If you have these symptoms, see a professional right away. Until these criteria are even arguably met, you probably do not have anorexia nervosa.
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I skip meals all the time but that's just because I'm usually not hungry. If that's how you are (maybe you are not hungry at the time) then there is no problem. But if maybe you stopped eating cause you are having emotional problems or something else then you need help. Otherwise you are perfectly fine.