People with eating disorders are doing this to themselves. They are usually very upset when they know the people around them are worried or hurt by their eating disorder. Compulsive eating is not an eating disorder. It is very much an eating disorder and is just as serious as anorexia and bulimia. Compulsive eaters are just lazy people.
Compulsive eating is a way to cope just like anorexia and bulimia are.
A person uses food as a way to comfort or numb themselves, block out feelings and emotions, etc. They are people in emotional pain trying to cope using the only way they know how. Like anorexia and bulimia, they need proper treatment to overcome it. They do not need to be sent to health spas and diet clinics. People cannot have more than one eating disorder.