Obsessive Compulsive Disorder requires a slow move back to control
OCD or Obsessive and Compulsive Eating disorders begins as an addiction-like response. This is to a life where needs are not being met and in all likelihood also, there is trauma and extreme anxieties that cannot be controlled.
As the obsession takes over, anxieties increase and are not diminished. This is because the obsessive behaviour – be it checking, cleaning, repeating – adds to the burdens of living a life of balance? At the extreme, a void is created and panic sets in.
This of course exacerbates the OCD or eating disorder – which can then be difficult to shift.