Eating all the time

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HELP. I have taken to comfort eating on a scale I've never seen before. I can't stop myself from eating everything in the house that is edible and available to me. It's causing huge arguments as well as caused me to put on a huge amount of weight and worry my mum tremendously about the likely coincidences with my type one diabetes.
I hate myself for eating so much, and for taking food that isn't even mine. My mum is terrified of me going to college in case I spend all my money on sweets and chocolate instead of real food. I'm scared I do the same. But I use it as a comfort, my psychologist suggested we upped my anxiety medication and believed it was all due to anxiety, but this hasn't helped. I need to find a way to deal with this and save myself from this added anxiety I feel every time I eat something I shouldn't. Has anyone came across this before? Has anyone got any form of advice. Please.

A therapist might could help. There's also a med called Topamax which is sometimes used for over-eaters because it cans cause feelings of fullness & cause food not to taste as good. I took it for alittle while to stop bingeating & it helped.

I know first hand how hard eating orders are to overcome. I would say first to identify some of your triggers are. More than likely there is something stressing you out or making you depressed and your using food as a comfort to surpress those feelings. I eat like that when anxiety and depression are high. the solution is to normally identify why I'm so anxious and depressed and handling it another way. Like if it's isolation that is causing the depression I will try to take steps to interact with others, even if it's just family, I know even that can be difficult as an aspie though.