When an anxiety disorder meets an eating disorder it can be a harsh reality.

Signs of an anxious health obsession disorder:

-Constantly buying new vitamins and supplements because you think it will make you feel better, only to end up with a shelf that looks like walgreens pharmacy section.🥺

🙈Trying every new fad diet in hopes it will give you more energy and that dream body, only to leave you in hungry, binge eating and depressed.🥺

🙈Obsessively working out hoping all your stress will melt away (and hopefully out run the darkness), only to still feel the chronic pain and meet those sleepless nights.🥺

🙈Idolizing the health and wellness industry because you feel like it will make you look like the instagram models only to look at yourself in the mirror and hate the way you look.🥺

When at the end of each day all of your hard mental, emotional and physical work you put into researching, watching, practicing everything “healthy” has left you more irritable, more stressed, more fatigued, more discouraged and sitting with depression/anxiety.

👀See marketing and I mean good marketing plays on your weakness or insecurities so you buy “said item”. 

Now I’m not here to bash effective marketing because as adults it is our job to tap in and ask ourselves, “can i afford this?” “Do I need this?” “Would this help me?”

And sometimes trial and error has to happen. 

But sometimes it’s actually a disorder taking over our lives and no matter how hard we try feeling happy, healthy and relaxed alludes us.

People with ADHD tend to suffer the most from this chronic pain(maybe I need to workout), food aversion(I can never find healthy foods I like so I binge carbs and junk food), forgetfulness(I forgot I bought all those supplements), body dysmorphia(never feeling healthy or good enough).

Herbs and/or medication can help with the chemical imbalance that comes with having such a disorder. (Consult a medical professional)

Holistic ways to help connect you back to you:

✨Deep breathing

✨Regular Massages

✨Yoga

✨Reiki

✨Salt Baths

✨Meditations

✨Mindfully slowing down

✨Honoring and embracing how you truly feel instead of running and fighting it

The trick is to reset your nervous system. When you suffer from anxiety your cortisol levels are too high and relaxation is the only way to lower it. Relaxation comes in many forms which is why most people self-medicate but once we identify the root issue you can mindfully relax and feel the benefits relaxation has to offer.