Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating disorder, also known as BED or compulsive overeating, is a serious disorder that is characterized by a recurrent, irresistible urge to overindulge or binge on food even when you are painfully full. We reveal how and why it becomes a problem, and what you can do about it.
It is normal to overeat from time to time, but when it comes to binge eating, the urge is persistent and seemingly uncontrollable, and is usually accompanied by feelings of shame and guilt. Binge eating disorder, just like other mental disorders, is strongly linked to depression, low self-esteem, anxiety and stress. Persistent overeating leads to obesity and other serious health conditions.
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However, there are specific criteria which characterize binge eating disorder:
• Inability to stop bingeing or thinking about food all the time.
• Bingeing episodes that last more than 2 hours.
• Continuing to binge even after becoming uncomfortably full.
• Feelings of self-loathing, depression, shame and guilt during and after a bingeing episode.
• Hiding while bingeing.
• Eating so fast that you don’t even feel or taste the food.
The Effects of Binge Eating
Obesity is one of the primary symptoms of binge eating disorder. However, not all victims of the disorder are obese or overweight. A good number of them still manage to maintain a lean body structure by using purging techniques such as laxatives.
Other side effects include:
• Type 2 diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Gastrointestinal problems
Psychological Effects of Binge Eating Disorder
In addition to physical stress on the body, binge eating has a negative impact on mental and emotional health with effects including:
• Anxiety
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However, typically individuals will ignore the signs and symptoms and ‘pretend’ they are fine. This is in part due to social stigma about being severally overweight but also the addictive food that is being consumed.
Many binge eaters simply do not realise they have an addiction to food. Food labelling does NOT convey the nature of the ingredients in the food.
Dietary Changes
The first step is to eliminate the addictive substances found in processed foods (refined sugar, refined flour and additives) to allow the brain and taste buds a chance to detox from the addiction.
This can be a tough time, physically and emotionally, while the body adjusts to naturally producing rewarding neurotransmitters, but in just a few weeks the brain has time to recover and up-regulate natural happy chemicals.
Therapy and Counselling
As is common with other eating disorders, binge eating can be treated with talking therapy and nutritional counselling. Talking therapy addresses dysfunctional behaviours and thoughts involved in the disorder, while nutritional counselling focuses on building strong healthy eating
In Conclusion, Binge Eating Disorder is a serious disorder characterized by overeating. If somebody is eating to fill their emotional needs in closure they should seek help. Binge Eating Disorder can happen to anybody and one of its many symptoms is linked to depression. There are many treatment options available for those looking to seek help.
Binge eating disorder, also known as BED or compulsive overeating, is a serious disorder, characterized by a recurrent, irresistible urge to overindulge or binge on food, even when you are painfully full. We reveal how and why it becomes a problem, and what you can do about it.
Binge-eating disorder, previously known as compulsive eating disorder, is when a person overeats and keeps on eating even when they are completely full. That individual eats even when they are not hungry and become uncomfortably full. The person gets embarrassed and will tend to hide from their peers. They will eat in hiding. Social pressure for thinness. The difference between binge-eating disorder and bulimia is that binge-eating disorder lasts a whole day while bulimia lasts for a few hours. Just like bulimia, the person eats alone to avoid embarrassment and usually eats till it is painful. Stress is a huge factor that causes binge eating. There is two types of binge-eating disorder, first one being deprivation-sensitive binge eating.
Recurrent episodes of binge eating is classified by eating large amounts of food in a discrete amount of time and a lack of control in over-consuming during an episode (Pomerantz, 2014). One then uses recurrent inappropriate purging behavior to prevent weight gain. DSM-5 has updated this occurrence to only once a week for three months. Those with the disorder cause self-evaluation to be strongly influenced by body shape and weight. These disturbances do not occur during episodes of anorexia nervosa, which is self starvation to limit calories and weight (American Psychiatric Association,
Bulimia nervosa is a chronic psychiatric disorder that haunts the lives of many young women. The disorder is characterized by frequent episodes of binge eating followed by some sort of purging. The purging usually involves self-induced vomiting and can cause great damage to the body. Persons diagnosed with bulimia nervosa have a loss of control over these behaviors. Affecting the lives of 3-5% of young women, bulimia is a problem that is spinning out of control and nothing seems to be able to stop it. Binge eating disorder is another psychiatric disease that causes problems for many people. In this disorder, persons binge frequently but do not attempt to compensate for their eating by using purging techniques such as those used by persons suffering from bulimia nervosa.
This book provides information on what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and the latest about treatment and prevention. The book focuses on eating disorders as a whole rather than just individual types of disorders. The source is not up to date at it was published six years ago and the statistics have changed and there is now more knowledge on eating disorders such as using neuroimaging to find what triggers eating disorders. The sources cited within the print is based off of other published prints. This print only gives the broad idea and main concept about eating disorders, it does not go into great detail so it was not very useful as a research source. This source is intended for those who is learning about eating disorders for the first time. It also includes a variety of graphs and charts to display different statistics which is designed to be productive and visually entertaining. Lorraine does cover the topic well as it allows the reader to easily find a variety of information on eating disorders that gives very clear and concise explanations with scientific
One harmful eating disorder is binge eating. Binge eating disorder is a disorder in which a person eats a large amount of food in a short period of time and they feel a large amount of guilt along with a loss of self-control that causes them to not be able to stop. Many people eat large amounts of food on special occasions such as holidays or celebrations but this is not an eating disorder unless the overeating becomes an everyday occurrence. This...
Eating disorders come in many forms, with the three main types being Anorexia Nervosa (Anorexia), Bulimia Nervosa (Bulimia), and Binge-Eating. They each differ in the way that the person affected deals with the food presented. Anorexia, meaning without appetite according to Random History, is an eating disorder where one fears gaining weight, so one self-starves (Rust). Bulimia, the more advanced stage of anorexia, consists of a rapid consumption of food followed by purging attempts using laxatives, excessive exercise, and self-induced vomiting (Rust). Binge-eating, on the other hand, is when one periodically goes on a long binge but does not vomit afterwards (Rust). This eventually leads to obesity.
The more weight that is gained, the harder they try to diet and dieting is usually what leads to the next binge, which can be followed by feelings of powerlessness, guilt, shame and failure. Dieting and bingeing can go on forever if the emotional reasons for the bingeing are not dealt with.
As early as 2010, 35.7% of adult Americans are obese, which is the highest level of obesity in the history of the United States. There are a number of environmental factors that contribute to obesity, the majority being the number of fast food restaurants and the recent outbreak of binge eating. Evidence shows that bingeing on sugary, tasty foods increases dopamine in the brain and in doing so possesses addictive habits. Apparently there have been several psychological and biological similarities between food addiction and drug dependence including loss of control and craving. One of the articles will look at environmental factors that might contribute to the obesity epidemic, and it will also compare the medical similarities and differences of drug dependence and food addiction.
Nutritional counseling with the help of a registered dietitian is essential in all eating disorder treatments. Binge eating treatments focus on meeting nutritional needs by ensuring the correct vitamins and minerals are included in the diet, for example. The dietician can help adjust the foods consumed to meet changing health needs. Binge eating may be caused by certain biological factors such as a malfunctioning hypothalamus, low serotonin levels and genetic mutation. There are several medications on the market that may help with binge eating, and these should be prescribed by a doctor.
There is substantial evidence that supports the efficacy of individual and group CBT in treating binge eating disorder (“Part A,” 2006). The CBT approach for binge eating disorder is active and directive. At the cognitive level individuals in CBT are taught to identify, test, and correct their faulty cognitions. Behavioral strategies in CBT for binge eating include monitoring binge patterns, educating the individual, and introducing incompatible activities (Parrott, 1998). One study assessed the long-term efficacy of CBT in the treatment of binge eating disorder. They assessed a sample of 68 patients with binge eating disorder and a substantial reduction of binge eating was observed during treatment. There was a decline at the three-year follow-up and at the four, five, and six-year follow up there was a slight worsening of binge eating was observed in the individuals (Ricca, Mannucci, Zucchi, Rotella, & Faravelli, 2000). Other psychosocial therapies that show efficacy in the treatment for binge eating disorder are interpersonal therapy (IPT) and dialectical behavior therapy. There is evidence that both of these therapies are effective in the improvement of behavioral and psychological symptom (“Part A,” 2006).
Such emotions that can cause harm to an individual is depression and sadness. When an individual overconsumes food, the individual may express such emotions that causes harm to their health. Becoming addicted to food can harm the life of an individual as the emotions that are express from overconsuming food can easily affect their daily life. Such experience is normally shown in the life of a teen who loves food but chooses to ignore the consequences that comes along with the
As we know chocolate is an unhealthy food option most of us have, it also is in one of the most popular food group, junk food. Everyone has some “junk food” in some point of their life these days; though its consumption is even more popular in the United States. Many Americans are becoming more and more obese over the last century partially due to that fact. According to Dr. Jeffrey Fortuna, author of the article The Obesity Epidemic And Food Addiction: Clinical Similarities To Drug Dependence, “As of 2010 nearly 70% of adult Americans were overweight or obese. Specifically, 35.7% of adult Americans are obese, and this is the highest level of obesity in the recorded history of the United States” (Fortuna, p. 1). I began to wonder if it could be possible that these people have become addicted to the junk food that they crave leading to these unsettling statistics. From the same article, The Obesity Epidemic And Food Addiction: Clinical Similarities To Drug Dependence, I learned that food does possess addictive qualities. There were biological and psychological factors that were similar to those of drug addictions. “They are: (1) cravings for specific drugs and palatable foods exist in many of the same neural path-ways, and; (2)...
Eating disorders are a serious health problem. Personal Counseling & Resources says that eating disorders "are characterized by a focus on body shape, weight, fat, food, and perfectionism and by feelings of powerlessness and low self-esteem." Three of the most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating or compulsive eating disorder. According to Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, a person with anorexia "refuses to maintain normal body weight for age and height" and "weighs 85 percent or less than what is what is expected for age and height." A person diagnosed with bulimia has several ways of getting rid of the calories such as binge eating, vomiting, laxative misuse, exercising, or fasting. The person might have a normal weight for their age and height unless anorexia is present. The signs of a compulsive eater include eating meals frequently, rapidly, and secretly. This person might also snack and nibble all day long. The compulsive eater tends to have a history of diet failures and may be depressed or obese (Anred.com).