Contents:
- Medical Video: Mayo Clinic Minute: 5 signs your teen might have an eating disorder
- What is a binge eating disorder?
- Who usually experiences this syndrome?
- Am I suffering from binge eating disorder?
- Symptoms and signs of binge eating disorder
- Signs on behavior
- Signs of emotion
- How to deal with binge eating disorder
- 1. Change your mindset about food
- 2. Look for other ways to treat your feelings
Medical Video: Mayo Clinic Minute: 5 signs your teen might have an eating disorder
Do you often eat large portions? Be careful, you may experience a binge eating disorder. What are the symptoms and signs?
What is a binge eating disorder?
Binge eating disorder is a eating disorder deviation syndrome. When people experience a binge eating disorder, they will eat in large portions and cannot control when to stop.
Almost everyone may like to overeat and cannot control their food consumption, but this only happens for a while. People who have a binge eating disorder often do this and eventually become a routine habit. If you experience a binge eating disorder, you may feel embarrassed by the habit of eating a large portion and uncontrolled, and intend to eliminate the habit. But you feel depressed and can not resist the urge to eat large portions of food.
Binge eating is not like bulimia, which after consuming large portions of food and then channeling his guilt by vomiting his food or taking laxatives to remove what he has eaten. Although guilt and shame arise due to the habit, people who do binge eating instead run away by eating food again, because thinking by eating they will feel comfortable and calm. This then becomes a cycle, consuming a large portion of food because of feeling depressed, then feeling stressed for having done it, and eventually returning to eating food as an escape.
Who usually experiences this syndrome?
Anyone can experience a binge eating disorder. But this is more common in women than men, and women who experience this are more likely than women who experience other eating behavior deviations, such as anorexia nervosa. This deviation often occurs in adolescents or young adults.
Am I suffering from binge eating disorder?
Try to answer the following questions:
- Do you feel uncontrolled when eating something?
- Do you always think about food or what will you eat?
- Do you often eat quietly, to avoid being seen by others?
- Do you eat until you feel pain?
- Do you eat food if you are sad, depressed, and stressed?
- Do you feel embarrassed after eating something?
- Don't you have the power to stop eating, even though you want to stop?
If the answer to the question on average is yes, then chances are you have a binge eating disorder
Symptoms and signs of binge eating disorder
Signs on behavior
- Cannot stop yourself when eating
- Quickly consume large portions of food
- Keep eating even though you feel full
- Hide when eating
- Eat normally in front of people but when eating alone, eat greedily
- Always eat most of the day and don't have time to eat
Signs of emotion
- Feeling stressed and depressed and then thinking that you can only calm down when eating
- Feeling very embarrassed because of the portion that has been eaten
- Never satisfied as much as any food eaten
- Desperate to control body weight and eating habits
How to deal with binge eating disorder
If you feel you have experienced the symptoms and signs mentioned earlier, then try to do the following methods:
1. Change your mindset about food
Food is something that is consumed when the body needs it, not because of the medicine from your emotional taste. Listen to your body, because then you can determine when you feel hungry, feel full, or even feel sick from a food. Focus on what you eat, by enjoying the taste and texture of your food. Then determine the hours of your meal, do not just eat when you feel hungry. Because this will cause you to overeat.
2. Look for other ways to treat your feelings
One of the biggest problems with this deviation is eating because you want to escape stress and feeling depressed. Therefore, look for reasons why and when you feel you cannot control your food. Write down what makes you stressed or stressed, then what you feel before and after eating, and do every time you feel depressed. By doing this, you can look for causes and what happens when you are depressed. After knowing it, try to look for other things that can treat your feelings, such as writing, reading a book, or even exercising. These activities will keep you away from food and eliminate feeling depressed slowly.
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