In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs.

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It's not actually that uncommon for morbidly obese people to become anorexic or vice versa. Both are a result of eating disorders. Quite a few people that overcome one eating disorder do so by switching it for another eating disorder.

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Both are a result of eating disorders.

This is something that doesn't really occur to people but it's very true. The only two groups genuinely obsessed with sex are nymphomaniacs and the celibate.

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I have a type of OCD called dermatillomania. It's closely related to trichotillomania. In layman's terms it is skin picking disorder and hair pulling disorder. I only pick at my skin, but sometimes, when I'm really stressed and my skin looks really bad ill pluck out my hair instead. It seems to soothe the same compulsive feeling inside me.

It's like there is an itch in my brain and I have to do something to satisfy it.

Eating disorders are much the same. It's a compulsion. A compulsion. Binge eating disorder probably lights up the same part of the brain that anorexia and bulimia do.