If you've ever found yourself questioning, is it OCD or is this an eating disorder,

you are not alone.

The struggle of untangling eating disorders versus OCD can feel confusing and overwhelming,

especially when your thoughts and behaviors overlap.

In today's episode, I am joined by Julia Sero to bring clarity, exploring the differences

and surprising similarities and what all that means for you.

Whether you're trying to understand your own experience or you're looking for practical steps

towards recovery, this conversation is designed to help you

find answers and hope. So let's dive in and make sense of what you're going through. Welcome,

Julia. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here. Yes, I'm so thrilled. Actually,

it's so wonderful that you had reached out to me because this

is actually a question we get a lot and one that I'd like to cover a little more here in the future.

So I today, well, actually Theo is here too, as he always is for the podcast these days.

We're really wanting to understand the differences between eating disorders versus OCD.

Why is that so important for the diagnosis and treatment of people?

Well, I think getting at sort of the underpinnings, particularly the obsessions and what's

driving them can be really helpful in informing an effective treatment plan.

So there's lots of ways that food can get tangled up in obsessive thinking and compulsions

and rigidity and rules and all the

things we're going to talk about. But if we're engaging in compulsion with food, whether it's

counting or tracking or restricting certain food groups because we have fear of losing control of our

bodies or a fear of gaining weight, the treatment could look really different than if we have fear of eating meat

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