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Eating disorder and childhood anxiety may have a link for Anorexic women as suggested by a study on 637 women with anorexia where 39 percent reported symptoms of childhood overanxious disorder.
By far now, its knows that  anxiety disorders, like social phobia and obsessive compulsive disorder, are far more common among people with anorexia than in the general population. Often, these anxiety disorders appear before the eating disorder does.
Well, according International Journal of Eating Disorders, researchers looked at whether a history of childhood “overanxious disorder” was related to the severity of women’s anorexia.
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In general, the researchers found, women with a history of childhood anxiety exhibited “more extreme personality traits” and attitudes — like perfectionism and obsessive tendencies related to food — than women without a history of early anxiety disorders.

According to Cynthia M. Bulik’s team, childhood anxiety disorders “may represent one entree” into anorexia which means early treatment is important.

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