The difference between an eating disorder and a diet....its best to be healthy
So many people think an eating disorder is a weight and think of a low weight anorexic but there are so many different eating disorders and even someone that becomes anorexic in weight started at a normal or higher weight. It's a mindset rather than a weight, therefore an eating disorder isn't a diet gone wrong it's a mental illness but a diet can trigger it in someone who's mental health is vulnerable. Not everyone who diets will develop an eating disorder. I've had eating disorders the majority of my teenage and adult life, even fad diets like the special k diet I would do as part of eating disorder thinking and behaviour. My weight has fluctuated alot especially as an adult but it was only 7 years ago I became overweight because of mirtazapine an antidepressant I got put on that can help you sleep (I could sleep but got more depressed over my weight) and I had heart failure and gained weight because of water retention and then couldn't be as active as I was