Binge Eating: Understanding This Disease

The book explains the complexities of Binge Eating Disorder that can be difficult to understand or appreciate for someone who has not had the condition. This relates to not only the behaviors involved, but also the underlying causes and triggers that drive them. 

Binge eating is a compulsive disorder, which means that those in its throes, or while acting under its compulsion, feel almost powerless to stop. The effects at the time are almost hypnotic, the person knows they could stop, but at the same time they can’t. 

Because of its compulsive nature and resulting actions, those with BED have emotional issues, some of which cause the behaviors, and some which result from it, including feelings of lowered self-worth. ‘Lowered self-worth’ is a very general term for feelings that can be strong enough to contribute to depression and self- harm.