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Binge Eating Disorder — Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders

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

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.