Eating Too Fast?

[Melody coates]

i have this strange habit of eating too quickly. Can anxiety cause this? does anyone here also do this?

 

[TonyG]

I find that anxiety stops me from feeling hungry

 

[WillyKat]

I often eat fast, unless I'm in front of other people AND if I remember to slow down. I dunno if its anxiety or not for me. That said, the dinner table is a anxious place for a lot of people because parents want you to eat, mind manners, etc. and I do know people for whom eating is anxiety producing.

 

[Melody coates]

i tend to rush during eating if im around people or not. i know for a fact thats it's not good for the digestive system :/

 

[WillyKat]

It's probably related to the hypervigilance that comes with PTSD, or as you suspect, anxiety in general.

 

[Friday]

I started eating fast when I worked cooking in restaurants. 10 minutes to eat a meal and smoke a cigarette? Inhaled. X2.

These were some pretty posh places. Joygasmic food. And we all ate at light speed.

When I'm eating slowly, or not eating? That's when I'm usually pretty symptomatic.

I suspect that most of us have food-issues of some sort. As it seems like PTSD makes us have to relearn "the basics". Breathing. Eating. Sleeping. Emotional monitoring and regulation. :wtf: So frustrating.

 

[Ronin]

Fast eater, too. I used to simply not have time for it for too long, not knowing when I'll be able to eat next and how much, nowadays it's mostly old habits die hard or it doesn't occur to me the food is available. I tend to forget about it. Unless it's in front of me it isn't there, kind of thinking. Obviously, very unhealthy. Working on it, but it goes soooo slowly.

At times deadpan looks from dear people are what gets me going though. Reminders get me feeling 'faail at basics' and pissed off with myself, look-talk makes me laugh and realize it's not a big deal thing to do, a thing I can change, and not a failure.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

In our family there is always tension during lunch for food. I eat really fast most of the time, a big sandwich takes about 10 seconds. I eat even faster when nervous.

 

[Neverthesame]

I seldom have an appetite when I'm having high anxiety. When I can eat, I do so incredibly slowly. I have no idea why, but I have been known to take up to two hours to eat a bowl of soup.

The first time I was prescribed Elavil, I had the strangest craving for this one cranberry breakfast cereal. I used to fill up one of those great big bowls you use to serve salad, held one bag of one of those jumbo boxes. I would just sit in front of the t. v. and about 20 minutes later it would all be gone. Strangest thing was, I would still be hungry. I had to make myself stop there because I knew I was probably going to hurt myself if I got more. At least it was a healthier cereal. Lol.