What is a binge eating disorder?

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Chelsea based private psychologist Anna Saunders explains what binge eating means and how it’s defined as an eating disorder, compelling people to consume food faster and in larger quantities. Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com

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Binge eating disorder is when people experience a compulsion and are unable to inhibit to eat extra food or more food in a short space of time. So usually, it will involve eating faster and larger quantities. There is a difference between subjective and objective bingeing, and they could say, they can be both. So, people might feel that they’re bingeing, but objectively that they may not be. But, usually, with binge eating there is overeating but without any way of compensating for it, so no exercise or purging.