Eating Disorders: Compulsive Dining
Most binge eaters are people who combine a high level of anxiety, perfectionism and low self-esteem and a very high level of stress.
Often know that their eating goes beyond normal or recommended and be aware of the risks faced by their compulsive behavior: heart attacks, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney damage or loss, arthritis, deterioration of the bone and even death.
Binge eaters suffer the feeling of being controlled by food, rather than otherwise, and not bother much about it. This domain do they eat all kinds of food such as sweets or burgers on the rare combinations, and aesthetically unpleasant-possible.
Binge eaters fall into mental illness with anorexia and bulimia, obesity is located within a medical and not necessarily related to an eating disorder. Furthermore, the etiology of binge eating refers, so far, problems in the patient’s personality, biochemical disorders in the brain, genetic and environmental factors and cultural factors and family.
Binge eaters, and in general, all people with eating disorders come from families with problems of limits-too constrained to allow the individual growth of its younger members, ‘or fathers or mothers too worried about the physical aspect of whether themselves, family and others who know. Also come from families where food relieves tension, stress or anxiety or homes where as in the novel “Like Water for Chocolate” the only way to express love is through a rich and delicious food.
Research at the Institute of Mental Health United States revealed that nearly half of binge eaters are depressed and many other of certain obsessive-compulsive disorder or phobias. The reasons for these matches would be in neurotransmitters such as serotonin, which regulates the production of hormones and mood-and vasopressin is released in response to emotional and physical stress.
While antidepressant therapy is effective for compulsive eaters, treatment of this condition should also include psychological therapy. The aim of the psychotherapy is to help the person recognize and confront their illness, improve your self-esteem and develop methods to control impulses and constant anxiety that forced him to eat. To achieve these goals the family support is vital.
Compulsive eating does not distinguish sex, race or weight. So a third of binge eaters are men and many Caucasians, Latinos and blacks, obese, normal weight or with constant fluctuations in weight, suffer from this disease.
Binge eaters FEATURES:
- Frequent episodes of binge eating two or more times a week for six months minimum.
- Episodes of binge eating may be more than one hour to manage feelings of anxiety, anger, sadness, etc.
- Usually ingest large amounts of water.
- They eat faster than most people and sometimes in secret.
- They eat large amounts of food without selecting flavors.
- Feelings of guilt and loss of control while eating.
- Feelings of guilt and depression after eating.
- Inability to avoid any foods.
- Can not stop eating.
- The episodes of binge eating may be planned or spontaneous.
- Ideas, even obsessions by not gaining weight.
- Dieting and over again, repeated failure.
- Low self-esteem and self-devaluation. Anxiety, sadness and depression recurring.
- Abdominal distension.