Compulsive Overeating
Compulsive Overeating
Early Intervention A Key To Recovery Compulsive overeating is an eating disorder in which a person eats excessive amounts of food in an uncontrollable manner. It often involves consuming a large amount of calories in one sitting. Some compulsive overeaters consume food throughout the day, an activity called grazing.
For the compulsive overeater, binging on food is a way to cope with overwhelming emotions, stressful life situations, and can provide the illusion of relief from feelings of emptiness. Though sufferers from the disorder are aware that what they are doing is abnormal, they can't stop the behavior.
When a person begins to gain weight, they often diet. Unfortunately, this increases the urge to eat which causes the next compulsive overeating episode. This becomes a viscous cycle of binging, restricting, and triggering feelings of guilt and shame.
Early intervention is essential to overcome this eating disorder and to help reduce any permanent physical or emotional consequences.
If you or someone you care about possibly has an eating disorder get better informed by taking the Eating Disorder Self TEST on this web site.
For the compulsive overeater, binging on food is a way to cope with overwhelming emotions, stressful life situations, and can provide the illusion of relief from feelings of emptiness. Though sufferers from the disorder are aware that what they are doing is abnormal, they can't stop the behavior.
When a person begins to gain weight, they often diet. Unfortunately, this increases the urge to eat which causes the next compulsive overeating episode. This becomes a viscous cycle of binging, restricting, and triggering feelings of guilt and shame.
Early intervention is essential to overcome this eating disorder and to help reduce any permanent physical or emotional consequences.
If you or someone you care about possibly has an eating disorder get better informed by taking the Eating Disorder Self TEST on this web site.