BEHAVIORAL EXCESS: OVEREATING

Behavioral Excess: Overeating

Abstract

The behaviours involved with binge eating are compulsive in nature, and typically signify a sense of inflexibility and excess, not only in the area of food consumption, but also in other life spheres as well. At times, and under certain circumstances, we all consume too much, too very quick and too often. yet, we are not all binge eaters. Excessive behaviours do not qualify as binges unless their function is to reduce or contain anxiety (resolving emotional problems,) and they are experienced as frequent, unavoidable, and beyond the control of the person bingeing.

Behavioral Excess: Overeating

Introduction

Binge-eating disorder (BED) or compulsive overeating is the lesser-known eating disorder, following anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. It is characterized by consuming when one is not hungry or by continual consuming without consider to physiological cues. Binge eaters normally eat to the issue of feeling extreme discomfort or even pain. Ihave worked with people whose bingeing behaviors are so severe as to be skilled as a pattern of self-mutilation; one 33 year vintage patient of mine recounts consuming so much nourishment at a seated that her skin hurts from being stretched. The patient will normally report common episodes of binge eating, with an inability to halt or to control the behavior. One in five young women today report this experience with food. Forty per hundred of binge-eating disorders occur in men and boys.

Deprivation-sensitive binge consuming arises out of unwarranted eating sparingly or food limit;

Addictive or dissociative binge consuming is the perform of self-medicating or self-soothing with behaviors that normally evoke feelings of emotional tranquility or numbness.

The know-how of the Binge Eater

Binge eaters report a total preoccupation with food. One of the difficulties that frequently happen with binge eaters is nighttime eating. Patients recount getting out of bed in the wee ...