CCED provides clinically proven treatment for
people suffering from a Binge Eating Disorder. We encourage you to speak with our Trusted Specialist.
Binge Eating Disorder describes individuals who engage in repeated episodes of
binging on food, but do not regularly use an inappropriate compensatory
mechanism such as purging or over-exercise (Bulimia Nervosa).
Binge Eating Treatment
Diagnosis of a
Binge Eating Disorder will fall under EDNOS. Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder often seek help when their
behaviors become economically, socially or personally unacceptable.
Initial treatment will focus on gaining control of the behaviors by
re-learning how to eat "normally." Other very important facets of
treatment include gaining mastery of emotions and feelings, and
learning to communicate these effectively in your world.
Signs of Binge Eating Disorder
- Individuals feel intense shame for their
behaviors, and thus engage in them privately.
- Binge eating may be set
off by restriction, intense negative emotions, stress, or negative
feelings associated with body shape, weight, or size.
- The binge may
induce more positive feelings for a period of time post behavior, but
shame and discomfort associated with the behavior typically follows.
Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder are typically of normal or
above-normal weight. The term "binge" can be described as eating a
larger amount of food than most individuals would eat in a discrete
period of time and feeling a concomitant and loss of control.
Disordered Eating
Disordered Eating is used to refer to eating habits that are not normalized,
but are neither accompanied by the emotional and physical aspects of an
eating disorder. Disordered eating is common in our society,
Disordered Eating Treatment
For individuals experiencing or recovering from
an Eating Disorder, seeing Disordered Eating in their community can be
a distressing event, as the behaviors themselves are not different.
Individuals working to recover from an Eating Disorder through CCED
will be given the opportunity to develop skills to tolerate and
distract from Disordered Eating.
Signs of Disordered Eating
- Dieting
- Food pickiness
- Food or food
texture phobias
- Overeating
Individuals who experience Disordered
Eating may be at higher risk for an Eating Disorder, but this risk is
likely mediated by the existence, or lack, of a genetic predisposition
for an Eating Disorder.