THe inescapable preoccupations and obsessions may fill the sufferer's mind for hours each day. They lead to extreme embrassment, shame and humiliation, and cause the person to avoid social situations and impair their social life, school, work and other life activities. Sufferes and their families need to recognize that a problem exists, find qualified professionals to treat it, and follow through in obtaining the necessary treatment. Compulsive Overeating Compulsive overeating is a disorder that is characterized by an inability to stop eating when an individual is no longer physically hungry. Typically this disorder is a cycle of binge eating a depression.
Food is used as a coping mechanism to deal with problems and negative feelings.
Binge eating will temporarily help ease the tension and stress caused by these feelings. Usually sufferers feel guilty, shameful, dpressed, and unhappy with their bodies after binging. Compulsive overeaters may binge in secret and restrict their food intake around others, or may snack on food all day long. This disorder affects women and high numbers of men. Complusive overeating can lead to hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, high cholesterol, insomnia, fatigue, shortness of breath, and heart problems.