I just read over some stuff I wrote about a year ago about how I was feeling. I can proudly say that although I still suffer from an extremely obsessive relationship with food, control and exercise, I am much better at keeping my anxiety at a lower level than I was.
I am still a very anxious person; I still get regular panic attacks, but these are no longer responsible for taking up 2 or more hours of every single day. It has been by no means easy to change, and I hope that when I recover from my eating disorder I will stop having them altogether.
That’s excellent! Any progress, however small, is still progress. 😀 I find especially that eating properly – with enough fat, reduced sugar and regularly – also helps the anxiety, and I’m much less likely to start getting what I call the ‘Impending Doom’ feeling for no reason whatever.
That’s interesting about how what you eat affects anxiety, and so maybe I’m right that when I’m recovered the panic will go entirely 🙂