How can you tell if you're anorexic or have anxiety or OCD?

There all completely different things. Anxiety is where you get extremely nervous, I personally throw up and totally spiral into panic. Anorexia is where you starve yourself to get skinny and OCD is where you get totally obsessed with certain rituals and have to complete them or you feel unwhole.

Everyone has got a little bit of crazy in them, its what makes us all so unique, but none of that crazy in us is a disorder untill it begins to disturb your life style or harm you in some way. Many people fight with all three of these dissorders you have brought up, but they are issues that typically consume the persons life/thought process. Sure, you can be an anxious person, but that doesn’t mean that you have an anxiety disorder unless it either physically or mentally effects you in an unhealthy way such as forming stomach ulsers, cronic tension headaches, nausea, etc. Same thing can be said with depression. Many people may feel depressed, its a natural emotion after all, but those that can’t seem to ever be happy may have a serotonin imballance and because of that may be diagnosed with a depression disorder of some sort (cronic depression, and so on and so forth). Anorexia though, is a different beast. People who are anorexic typically start down a disillusioned through process that they are ‘fat,’ and begin dieting in a healthy manner untill dieting becomes unhealthy/harmful. Abstaining from food then becomes an intense obsession that takes much effort to pull away from. Abstaining from food for a little while (a meal, a fast, etc.), although unhealthy, doesn’t mean you are anorexic. Anorexia comes with the obsessive thoughts and fear of gaining weight. OCD is an intresting disaorder as well, and is one that I am very familar with. I was diagnosed with it back in sophomore year when I was going through a really hard time. Most of my family on my mom’s side had some varing degree of the disorder, but I was the first to be diagnosed because it became out of control for me and consumed my livelihood until i could get a handle on my anxiety. OCD stems from depression and/or anxiety, and is treated with either an anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medication along with a bunch of councling to learn how to control it, and it’s not what a lot of people are making it out to be in todays society. Its not just need to do something a certain amount of times, or the need to do them over because like I said before, most people tend to have a little bit of all sorts of crazy in them. Not to mention that as humans we are ritualistic (sp?) in nature. Its when you cant control the amount of times you feel you need to do something, or need to redo something till it feels right, which can sometimes take hours to do. Some people even count constantly. For me, I knew that it got out of hand when I found that I would have to touch every single thing in my room in a specific order and a certain amount of time or I would have to start from the very beginning untill i got it right. At first it wasnt bad, but as time went on my ‘ritual’ got longer. I didnt feel i could get any peace of mind untill everything was done exactly as I had done it before to gain peace and go to bed the night before. Some nights I couldnt even sleep because I wasnt able to get the order right. But thankfully I got help and now i do a few things here and there, but I now know how to keep it from getting out of hand and how to calm myself down (when anxious)without the need of medication. Its all just mind over matter. Anyway, to conclude this insanely long responce, I hope you dont have any of these disorders (cuz they suck) but if you feel that you do, then why not look them up more on google? it could always help just to learn more and use fact to ‘prove people wrong’ as you said. hope this was helpful!

First of all, you don’t ask people online who really have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about or have limited knowledge through self experience, nor do you google the disorders. Anorexia is a mental disorder (yeah, eating disorders are mental disorders, who would have thought), which needs a diagnosis from a mental health professional. Anxiety is something EVERYONE has. It is like saying how can you tell if you have sadness. Everyone gets anxious. It’s just worrying. It is not a disorder. A large amount of anxiety can possibly be diagnosed in the different categories of anxiety disorders (by a mental health professional). Oh and OCD is actually one of the anxiety disorders. There’s different types of OCD. It basically consists of obsessions (thinking of something repetitively) and compulsiveness (engaging in an action over and over). Again, you go to someone who knows what they’re talking about. Yes, you can get personal information on here. But that doesn’t help you diagnose actual disorders.

i agree with mackenzies answer there 3 totally different, types of disorders

Very concise and accurate.

when your doctor says you have a problem that is when i realized it.