Definition
Binge Eating is simply a person’s excessive desire to eat despite feeling satisfied and full, caused by many causes, including psychological, hormonal, and organic factors, and this state of binge varies in terms of periods may be prolonged and may be limited, even if prolonged, causing many diseases affecting a person’s health.
Unlike those who have bulimia (bulimia), after repeated bingeing, you do not vomit after eating, using laxatives, or exercising violently.
We may overeat in certain circumstances, such as occasions and vacations, but binge-being is out of control.
The patient is overweight or obese and may be of average weight.
Signs of Binge Eating
1. Eat a large amount of food in a specified period over two hours.
2- Feeling that you’re eating behavior is out of control.
3. Eat even if you are full or not hungry.
4- Eat quickly.
5. Take up to uncomfortable fullness.
6- Deal with it repeatedly on your own or in secret.
7. Feeling depressed, disgusting, ashamed, guilty.
8- Diet a lot without losing weight.
The severity of overeating disorder is determined by the number of seizures during a week, and support is vital by a doctor, psychologist, family, and experimenter.
Reasons for Binge Eating
It is unknown, but family history, biological factors, long-term dieting, and psychological issues increase the risk of injury.
Taking medications such as antidepressants, cortisone, which introduces blood sugar into blood cells, which makes cells play their part in alerting the nervous system that it needs sugar, and the reaction of the nervous system increases the patient’s appetite for food, which increases the patient’s demand to eat and binge becomes a normal behavior accompanying the patient.
Causes of Binge Eating
The reasons for binge eating foods are often psychological, and they are usually associated with psychological pressures, often a means by which the patient tries to deal with emotions.
Polymnia, a mental illness characterized by excessive eating and vomiting.
Increased thyroid secretion also causes binge food.
Diabetes, due to low blood sugar levels, the patient resorts to eating foods with the purchase of foods, especially those containing sugars.
Risk Factors
1- Family History: A candidate if one of your parents or siblings is in turmoil.
2- Psychological issues: Who feels negative about himself and his achievements will be insatiable or have stress, weakness of the body, and boredom.
3. A prolonged diet that may go back to childhood and reduce calories during the day may lead to a desire to overeat.
4- Age: Most often start with late adolescence or the beginning of 20 years.
The Consequences of Binge Eating
Binge eating has severe consequences as it can lead the body to countless diseases, including heart, high blood pressure, cancer, high cholesterol, joint, muscle pain, and digestive disorders.
Complications: Psychological and physical problems may develop with Bad binge feelings with self and life.
Poor quality of life
Social isolation
General problems at work,
personal and social life
Excessive obesity
Medical
conditions associated with obesity (joint problems/heart/diabetes/reflux)
Psychological disorders such as (depression/bipolar disorder/anxiety/substance abuse disorder) Treatment needs a medical team, and before the patient’s departure time to the health center, must prepare a list.
Goals for Treating Overeating
disorder: – Reducing overeating, and when necessary to lose weight and need psychological assistance through individual or group sessions (talking therapy) that help teach the individual how to share unhealthy habits with healthy ones and reduce insatiable recurrence.
Cognitive-behavioural therapy to better deal with issues that may lead to insatiable episodes such as negative feelings about the body or depressed mood, which helps to feel better and control and regulate your food.
Interpersonal psychotherapy: Focuses on your relationships with others, and the goal is to improve your skills to deal with others. How to communicate with others, including family, friends, and co-workers, may help reduce bingeing.
Behavioural therapy: Helps teach behavioural skills to withstand stress, regulate emotions and improve relationships with others, reducing the desire to eat with a binge.
Therefore, For diseases that cause binge, the treatment is according to the condition caused by the patient. However, the cause is thyroid activity. And also, the patient is treated through medication or radiation and in boldness if necessary while removing part of the thyroid gland.
