Binge Eating More Common Than Once Thought
Binge eating is an eating disorder in itself, without the purging cycle that typically goes along with the disease/eating disorder that we all know of as bulimia. Binge eaters frequently binge, or overeat, foods, and they do not purge themselves of the foods afterwards (throw them up, take laxatives to get rid of it throught the elimination phase, or exercise them off).
Binge eating can result from several things in the regular world, and we all have probably been guilty of binge eating at one time or another. If it just happens once in a blue moon for you, you’re most likely just a normal person without an eating disorder, however if you frequently cope with stress, anxiety or other stressful feelings by over eating (bingeing) then you probably do have the eating disorder described as bingeing.
Binge eating often occurs when one if by themself, so that no one can ridicule or call them out that they are eating too much. It is often accompanied by feelings of hopelessness, guilt and disgust with ones self, so it rarely accomplishes any sort of therapy that it is meant to seek out by the person who is doing it since many times they don’t even have a true appetite and are eating for no reason at all other than to fill some sort of void.
It often is a sign of depression and/or severe anxiety, and it is so addictive because it can cause temporary satisfaction, and make the person crave it for the temporary rush of “good” hormones that are inevitably crashed to the grouns afterwards, resulting in a nasty vicious circle because it seems to feed on itself. It is also often marked by obesity, and hard to treat because those that practice binge eating are often not willing to talk about it or get treatment.
