How To Overcome Binge Eating Disorder: 7 Lessons to Understand, Treat, and Overcome Binge Eating Disorder & Compulsive Overeating

By HowExpert

Book Description:
This book offers hope for those struggling with Binge Eating Disorder and those who believe they may be experiencing symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder. It aims to provide one with further understanding into the intricacy of this mental illness, as well as necessary information for beginning or maintaining the recovery process.

This book explores:
• Diagnostic criteria for Binge Eating Disorder
• Distinctions between Binge Eating Disorder and overeating, emotional eating, and food addiction
• Complex factors that play into the development of Binge Eating Disorder
• Effects of Binge Eating Disorder on an individual's physical, mental, and overall health
• Potential sources of emotional emptiness that one may turn to food to fill
• Various methods of treatment used to aid those suffering from Binge Eating Disorder
• Strategies for utilizing healthier coping mechanisms upon the urge to binge eat
• Relapse as a part of the recovery process and how one can attain lasting recovery

Above all, this book serves to provide clarity into Binge Eating Disorder as a serious mental illness, as well as the encouragement for one to dig deeper into the underlying roots of their compulsive behavior. An individual can then take whatever steps are necessary to cope with Binge Eating Disorder, develop a healthier relationship with food, and live a fuller life.

About the Expert:
Lindsay Rossum has been in recovery from Binge Eating Disorder for over 4 years and has been free from compulsive overeating for over 2 years. She is passionate about sharing her experiences with others to encourage them that there is hope and freedom from this disease. Lindsay now works as a Recovery Support Specialist where she walks alongside others with mental disorders including eating disorders. Lindsay is a fan of rabbits (particularly her bunny Lily), new stationery, and spending hours at coffee shops.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Jul 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370618552

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How To Overcome Binge Eating Disorder

7 Lessons to Understand, Treat, and Overcome Binge Eating Disorder & Compulsive Overeating

HowExpert Press & Lindsay Rossum

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Smashwords Edition

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Understanding Binge Eating Disorder

Chapter 2: Causes of Binge Eating Disorder

Chapter 3: Short and Long Term Effects of Binge Eating Disorder

Chapter 4: What Do We Hunger For?

Chapter 5: Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder

Chapter 6: How to Cope with Binge Eating Disorder

Chapter 7: Recovery is Not Linear

References

About the Expert

Recommended Resources

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Introduction

A Common and Complex Eating Disorder

Binge Eating Disorder is the most common eating disorder in the United States and at the same time, one of the least discussed and understood. Binge Eating Disorder (or BED) is defined as re-occurring episodes of consuming large amounts of food rapidly, to the point of discomfort, accompanied by the sense of loss of control while eating. Typically binge eating episodes are followed by extreme feelings of distress and shame (National Eating Disorders Association). After a binge, there are no behaviors used to compensate for calories consumed such as purging, laxative use, or excessive exercise.

These compensatory behaviors are present in bulimia nervosa, which is the primary difference between the two eating disorders. A recent study found that 2.8 million people in the United States are affected by BED (Health-Line Statistics). Therefore, three times as many people live with BED than anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa combined. This statistic is alarming since BED is often neglected in the discussion of eating disorders, while so many people are continuing to suffer from the disease. BED does not discriminate as it affects individuals of all ages, genders, races, socioeconomic statuses, and walks of life.

Positive strides were made in 2013 as the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) finally recognized BED as a distinct eating disorder with its own unique characteristics and criteria. As the DSM-V is the resource in which mental health professionals refer to in making diagnoses, this milestone was crucial. Previously BED had been lumped into the EDNOS (Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified) category, which is now referred to as OSFED (Other Specified Feeding/Eating Disorders). Casting off BED as a sub-type of disordered eating instead of its own mental illness was trouble-some as insurance companies can deny treatment for those who do not fit under a clear diagnosis.

Before receiving its own official diagnosis, BED was viewed by many not as a mental illness, but as an individual deciding to overconsume. Those struggling with BED were viewed as over-indulgent, lacking the self-control and will-power to limit their food consumption. Much of society still holds