Contents:
- Medical Video: 9 Strategies to Stop Overeating
- What are the symptoms binge eating disorder?
- Is a disorder binge eating dangerous?
- How to handle binge eating disorder?
- Therapy for healing binge eating
- Psychotherapy
- Drugs
Medical Video: 9 Strategies to Stop Overeating
Obesity is one of the many health problems found in the world community. Many factors cause it, one of which is excessive diet. However, overeating is not only caused by mere lust. There is a eating disorder called Binge Eating Disorder (BED) which makes sufferers often eat not stop with large portions.
Abnormalities binge eating can be found at various ages, and is more common than other eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia nervosa. Abnormalities binge eating found in 3.5% of adult women and 2% of adult men. This disorder was first discovered in obese people in 1959, but has only become the main diagnosis since 1990.
What are the symptoms binge eating disorder?
- Eat a very large portion in a certain period of time, for example within 2 hours.
- Can not control appetite and how much he eats.
- Eat even if you feel full or not feeling hungry.
- Eat until the stomach feels completely filled and feels bad.
- Often store and hide food to eat later.
- Often eat alone when others do not see, due to embarrassment with the conditions they experience.
- Feeling guilty, depressed, and disgusted after eating as above.
- Feeling stress that can only be overcome by eating.
- Desperate to control body weight and diet.
In contrast to sufferers of bulimia nervosa, at binge eating disorder, patients do not have the tendency to vomit food, take laxatives, or exercise excessively. Degree of severity from binge eating disorder determined by how often binge-it's "recurring" every week.
Is a disorder binge eating dangerous?
Binge eating uncontrolled can cause overweight and obesity. Obesity itself is a risk factor for various diseases such as stroke, heart disease, and others.
Other than that, binge eating can also cause physical, mental, and social problems. People with abnormalities binge eating tend to suffer from various disorders such as stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and the desire of self-employed people compared to people with a normal diet.
How to handle binge eating disorder?
Some things can be done if you or the person closest to you has a disorder binge eating is:
- Keep away from food. You will be easy to overeat if there is food, snacks, or junk food around you
- Differentiate between hunger and "hunger". If you have just eaten, or are still feeling full, maybe it's not hungry. Then identify what causes "hunger" you feel, is it due to boredom? Stress? Anxious? Or other?
- Fight boredom. Create a schedule of activities such as exercising or visiting friends and family. Boredom can cause you to overeat.
- Eat regularly. If you wait until you're really hungry, you will tend to overeat.
Therapy for healing binge eating
The goal of therapy binge eating is to reduce the recurrence of episodes binge eatingand helps reduce weight in the event of obesity. In addition, sufferers binge eating tend to have other problems such as shame, depression, and low self-esteem due to body image the bad one. Therapy also aims to overcome this and other psychological disorders.
Psychotherapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
CBT helps patients to overcome issues that cause them to experience episodes binge eating, helps patients take back control of themselves, and helps patients to be able to eat regularly.
Interpersonal psychotherapy
This therapy focuses on the relationship of patients to those around them - family of friends, colleagues. This therapy functions to overcome binge eating caused by a bad relationship with the surroundings.
Dialectical behavior therapy
This type of therapy functions so that patients are able to control stress and regulate emotions so they no longer experience episodes binge eating.
Drugs
Administration of antidepressants, anticonvulsants, or anti-ADHD can reduce symptoms binge eating. Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate anti-ADHD drug is the first FDA-approved drug for treatment binge eating moderate to severe. These drugs can cause mild to serious side effects, consult your doctor first for usage information and recommended dosages.
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