One of the most common comorbidities of eating disorders is OCD. Studies have demonstrated that samples of individuals with eating disorders are significantly more likely to have OCD than those without an eating disorder. 

Comorbidity of Eating Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

- Oftentimes, eating disorders go hand in hand with anxiety disorders

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- Oftentimes, anxiety disorders go hand in hand with eating disorders

Comorbidity with Anxiety

Swinbourne, J., Hunt, C., Abbott, M., Russell, J., St Clare, T., & Touyz, S. (2012). The comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders: Prevalence in an eating disorder sample and anxiety disorder sample. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 46(2), 118–131. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867411432071 

The comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders: Prevalence in an eating disorder sample and anxiety disorder sample

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Comorbidity of Eating Disorders

3 different explanations for the observed pathology of the comorbidity of anxiety and eating disorders:
- Anxiety may be a risk factor for the development of an eating disorder
- Anxiety may be secondary to eating pathology
- Both disorders share common vulnerability factors

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