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During compulsive overeating treatment the person is usually kept in an intensive care style habitat so that their actions may be monitored. Usually compulsive overeating is a side effect of other things such as depression, sleep disorder, or anxiety.
Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating are types of eating disorders. http://www.medicinenet.com/binge_eating_disorder/page2.htm#what That website includes great information to help you learn more.
There are many strategies that one can attempt in order to fight the problem of compulsive overeating. One can structure their eating pattern, set rules, change the way they think about food, and enjoy the foods that they can control.
Symptoms of compulsive overeating disorder include frequent episodes of uncontrolled eating where the person feels out of control. Compulsive overeaters will eat even past the point when they are comfortably full. Much of their thought is about food and they may fantasize about eating alone. Bingeing is usually followed by guilt and depressed thoughts.
Bulimia.
Yes, that's usually a common sign of compulsive overeating or binge eating.
Compulsive overeating and bulimia. Fortunately many are helped in Overeaters Anonymous. See Link.
while people who have problems with gambling, overeating or with substance abuse may appear to be compulsive, these activities also provide pleasure to some degree. The compulsions of OCD, on the other hand, are never pleasurable
Risk factors for getting the disease or risk factors if you already have the disease?
It depends upon the eating disorder. There are different signs for each of the eating disorders. Anorexia, Bulimia, bing eating disorder, and compulsive overeating are all different.
There are many health risks involved with overeating pizza and Pepsi. Some are these are, risk of heart attack from all of the grease clogging your arteries, risk of obesity because pizza and soda are full of bad calories, gas because of the carbonation of soda.
Statistically: Dependent risk factors require other risk factors to reach statistical significance Independent risk factors are still statistically significant when adjusted for known risk factors