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Binge Eating Disorder

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Symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder

How much is too much? Are you binge-eating or just pigging out every once in a while? The following are behaviors that indicate a serious Binge Eating Disorder. If you or a loved one exhibits these behaviors, seek help immediately.

Recurrent binge eating (without compensatory behavior) and three or more of the following:

Eating more rapidly than normal
Eating until uncomfortably full
Eating alone
Eating large amounts without feelings of hunger
Feel disgusted, depressed or very guilty due to overeating
Marked distress
The behavior takes places at least two days a week for 6 months
Not associated with regular use of inappropriate compensatory behaviors

Know someone who might be a binge eater? If so, it is important to help them. Often, they might not have the desire to help themselves, so it can be up to friends and loved ones to save them. Take a look at these symptoms, and decide whether this person fits all or most of these symptoms. Look at this criteria and decide whether this person fits all or most of these descriptions.

	Recurrent episodes of binge eating in a discrete period of time
	An amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances
	A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode
	eating until feeling uncomfortably full
	eating much more rapidly than normal
	eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry
	feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty after overeating
	eating alone because of being embarrassed by how much one is eating

The information provided on this site should not replace your physician’s advice.