Loss of control over amount of eating, marked distress over a binge episode, occuring at least once a week for 3 months, eating more rapidly than normal (i.e. 2 hr period), eating until feeling uncomfortably full, eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry, eating alone because of being embarrassed by how much you're eating, & feeling disgusted with yourself, depressed, or very guilty over after overeating.
With symptoms like that, a person may be suffering from a binge-eating disorder, a compulsive-over-eating disorder, or an emotional eating disorder.
An eating disorder with binge eating is bulimia nervosa.
It is called Binge Eating Disorder (BED).
Yes. You need to see your doctor with information on Binge Eating Disorder as well as what to do about it.
Binge eating disorder may develop as a response to anxiety, depression, stress, or as the after effect of another eating disorder.
binge eating disorder
Binge-eating disorder is where you may feel shame or guilt about eating and those with this disorder tend to be on the heaver side.
It seems as though you are referring to bulimia. However, bulimia is characterized by binge eating followed by purging (throwing up). Binge eating alone would probably just be considered food addiction.
Binge eating disorder.
Night Eating Disorder
A bineg eating disorder is where a person continually "binge" eats. This means that they eat excessive, large amounts of food in a relatively short period of time. This food is usually not very healthy. As a result, there can be weight problems, health problems related to obesity, the likelyhood of developing bulimia (to purge after such bingeing), and depression.
The most common eating disorder is binge eating disorder, characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food in a discrete period of time, often accompanied by a sense of loss of control.