Ever tried any of the SSRIs hat treat OCD and Generalized Anxiety
Disorder like Lexapro ? Are you seeing a theapist ? Is there something
in the trigger foods that affect you phyically or is it all psychlogical ?

I am going through similar. Mine started with difficulty swallowing and after five months its now thought to be fully psychological. Since I have not eaten a lot of foods from three months ago, I have a fear of eating a lot of textured foods. I am starting to try and eat again. Things like cheese, biscuits and egg, along with the few other things I've been having. I do present with a little anorexia but i haven't been diagnosed with an actual eating disorder. Maybe it's more so a severe anxiety disorder. I will be seeing an eating specialist as soon as I can.

I ended up in hospital two nights ago with severe dizziness and nausea. Luckily my body hasn't been affected at this stage but I think this is a warning for me. So I have to force myself to eat despite the swallowing difficulty.

I went through an obsession where I feared getting food poisoning. I was away at college at the time. Before the obsession started I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease which meant I couldnt eat gluten or wheat. I had to have special foods made for me in the dinning hall, it sucked. Well I started fearing that they were doing bad things to my food or not handling it right as I was the only one eating that food. I started eating less and less. I eventually liked feeling hungry (at the time i was dealing with the diagnosis of OCD too, so both diagnosis' got me feeling like crap plus the semester was super hard).By the end of the semester I was 15 pounds lighter and one morning i went to eat a banana and i started gagging. I couldnt even put food in my mouth. I freaked out and called my mom as i was super starving but my body wouldnt let me eat. I ended up getting over the obsession when i went home for winter break. After that i brought food and ate in my room. Altho that next semester i still obsessed that the food in my room was bad. I am not that bad anymore. I do tho will ask people (mom, boyfriend) if the food is bad and then i ask "are you sure" and i also say "i dont want to get sick". So i still sorta am bothered by it but no where near as bad as i was.

Oh yea and btw, my psychologist was calling me throughout the semester and was making sure i was eating. He kept telling me i was getting to the point where weight was just gonna come off fast and i would end up in the hospital. It freaked me out to think i was that close to losing hair and looking super nasty. I know that your could see my cheek bones way too much and i didnt like how i looked but i couldnt eat in fear i would get sick plus i would punish myself and not eat. He never told me to my face that i had an eating disorder so i dont know if i was just headed there or if i was there. I think i was only 5 lbs under weight the lowest weight that i could be for my height but i had lost 15 lbs. I still do at times not eat when i am mad. It's not good but ever since that obsession i picked up punishing myself in the way.

I have a problem with not eating. Sometimes i will eat once a day and very little because i am afraid of gaining weight. The medicines I have taken in the past always seems to have made me gain weight so the only way i am in control of it is to not eat much. I know it is not good but for me it is the only thing that works for me right now. You would think that being on the medicines it would help me not to feel like this but my life is so out of control right now. I wish you the best and pray you are able to over come this.

I can relate. I feel sick after eating so I only eat certain things. My thing is a love to eat and then I was restricting myself not by choice but because of how I felt afterwards. I lost 20 lbs just like that a couple years ago and I couldn't afford to lose that much as I was already tall and thin. When our bodies are deprived of food we drop in blood sugar and that also creates major anxiety symptoms/hypoglycemia. If you can't eat much eat every couple of hours-a protein shake, fruit, toast, something as going that long will be harmful to your health in the long run.

I can relate and I'm glad to see other people are having similar issues. I have had stomach issues for months now and I've gotten to the point where eating has scared me and I rely on a small list of "safe" foods to keep me going. I also fear throwing up so the amount I eat has been little. My psychologist has been focusing on this and has given me homework assignments to get me eating.