Recovery can take different forms, depending on each person. For some, it means the end of their symptoms (e.g., restrictions, excessive exercise, bingeing, purging). For others, healing involves ending self-hatred, fear, guilt, and negative self-talk associated with an eating disorder.

Self-esteem simply refers to a person’s assessment of their worth, and everyone’s self-esteem is based on a list of things that we feel are important.
A person’s list might look like this:

   • How smart am I?
   • What kind of job do I have?
   • How much money do I earn?
   • How hard do I work?

The question here is: do you have a list? How is your own list?

You have acknowledged your eating disorder and decided to seek therapy, but now you are anxious and worried about your first appointment. Going to your first appointment with a therapist can be overwhelming as you have to share vulnerable information about yourself with a person you do not even know. Questions like what to expect and how to act in your mind arise. Here are some tips that can help you have a better outlook on your therapy sessions.

Journaling generally revolves around the practice of putting your thoughts, feelings and keeping track of the routine. Keeping a journal is considered a vital part of your eating disorder treatment. It provides a way to stress management and self-exploration and works best when done consistently. Just putting your thoughts down can help you understand the impact of the things in your life like eating habits and meeting personal goals.

After tests and experiments, interpersonal psychotherapy is known to be one of the therapies that are fitting for binge eating disorder. It may not be the perfect therapy to adopt for depression or other eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa, among others. Still, it is a recommended treatment by therapists for binge eating disorder.

Emotional eating is a primary reason for obesity and for people to eat when they are not hungry. This week aims to sensitize oneself to dynamic eating mechanisms and better understand the urge to reach for food in times of frustration, stress, and fear.

Binge eating disorder is a serious mental illness where an individual will eat enormously until uncomfortable and distressed. Hunger and satiety are no more relevant in this scenario.

Binge eater eventually develops some particular personality traits over time. When observing for signs and symptoms of Binge eating disorder most obvious signs are physical – Obesity, overweight. These signs are due to over consumptions of calories. Apart from physical and health symptoms, binge eaters have certain behavioral problems.

Eating disorders are disorders generated by complex mental health conditions usually hidden from the suffering persons, and their manifestations require support from medical and psychological experts.

These disorders are described in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5).

In the United States alone, an estimated 20 million women and 10 million men have or have had an eating disorder at some point in their life.

Japan and other eastern countries are growing at the highest rate.

Sometimes we serve ourselves with a full overloaded plate that too multiple times in a buffet. Is it binge eating or just a one-time splurge? How do you find out if it is a mere food addiction or a disorder? Well, Binge eating disorder always happens periodically, a period of binging over food followed by a period of guilt and shame. One-time overeating cannot be labeled as BED. You eat once a week at least for months to be diagnosed with a binge eating disorder.

If you have ever taken a whole large pizza after a bad day at work, ate in haste, and not regret it afterward. Well, that’s was emotional eating. It won’t be labeled as a binge eating disorder. It would help if you were at least binge once a week for few months to be considered medically ill or disordered.