A New Way; Emerging Treatment Methods for Binge Eating Disorder

According to the National Eating Disorder Association, binge eating disorders are one of the newest forms of eating disorder to be formally recognized among the mental health community. This disorder can wreak havoc on a person’s life – a person with binge eating disorder can fall into a recurrent pattern of compulsive eating which affects

An effective treatment program for eating disorders usually involves a variety of treatment methods. While this may involve medication, most often a combination of talk therapy and cognitive retraining are the focal points. There are several specific types of therapies that can be used for treating eating disorders. The specific types of therapy vary depending

Binge eating disorder is, by most standards, the most common type of eating disorder in the United States.Since it has been added to the DSM-V as a standalone diagnostic category, binge eating disorder has gained prevalence in the public consciousness. Every day, new people make a commitment to treatment for binge eating disorder by entering

Binge eating disorder, the most common eating disorder in the United States, is still widely misunderstood. In the common viewpoint, it’s just a simple case of overeating (or maybe just a lack of willpower or self-control). Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, binge eating disorder is a complex psychiatric disorder that affects

Of the estimated 10 million people in the United States who have presentations of Binge Eating Disorder (BINGE EATING DISORDER) requiring eating disorder support, even to the point of a stay at an eating disorder recovery center, about 40 percent are men.  This stands in stark contrast to the gender split found in disorders like

Body image influences almost everyone at some point in their lives, if not constantly throughout their lives. It’s how a person sees themselves; do you see yourself as tall? Short? Pretty? Ugly? Skinny? Important to developing eating disorders – “fat?” As children enter into adolescence, they go through several different physical and emotional changes. During

Although most people think of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa when they hear the term “eating disorder,” the National Eating Disorders Association shows that binge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in the United States.  Binge eating disorder symptoms are defined by binge eating episodes (in which a person eats a large

Binge eating disorder, recognized officially by the psychiatric community as a mental health disorder upon its addition to the DSM-V in 2013, is the most common form of eating disorder in the United States. When people have binge eating disorder, they feel compelled to have “binge eating episodes” in which they eat a large amount

The prevailing point of view among people who aren’t part of the treatment industry (or patients themselves) is that eating disorders are something that only happens to young adults. Unfortunately, these kinds of misconceptions can lead to missing the telltale symptoms of binge eating disorder and other kinds of eating disorders in populations that don’t