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Compulsive Overeating

Juan Pablo Llamas Pérez-Salazar

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Binge eating disorder (BED) is a behavioral disorder characterized by chronic, compulsive overeating. While occasional overeating is normal, an eating disorder is a condition that you live with every day. It feels like it controls you and interferes with your mental, emotional and physical well-being. Like those with disordered eating, people with ADHD often deal with boredom, stress and intense feelings by overeating in order to soothe themselves. Those with ADHD may be likely to forget to eat and to binge later. They may also have trouble planning and shopping ahead, which can result in spur-of-the-moment and uncontrolled eating.

Definition and causes:

We live in a culture where we are constantly enticed with high-caloric foods. This can be particularly challenging for those who eat in reaction to environmental cues rather than due to feelings of hunger. Like those with disordered eating, people with ADHD often deal with boredom, stress and intense feelings by overeating in order to soothe themselves. Those with ADHD may be likely to forget to eat and to binge later. They may also have trouble planning and shopping ahead, which can result in spur-of-the-moment and uncontrolled eating. On the surface, compulsive overeating might seem like it’s about hunger. But if we take a deeper look, this eating behavior is about more than that. It’s usually a way to deal with difficult emotions.

Compulsive Overeating is more than the occasional overindulgence. Compulsive eating disorder is a complex, deeply rooted pattern of disordered eating that involves consuming unusually large amounts of food, even when not physically hungry. Unlike typical overeating, which may occur in social settings or on special occasions, compulsive overeating is driven by emotional distress.

Consequences :

• Feels like it controls you
• Overindulgence
• offers temporarily relieve from ansiety
• Triggers insane shame and guilt
• Perpetuating a cycle that requires professional care to break.
• interferes with your mental, emotional and physical well-being.