Two Cents Tuesday's

The Other Eating Disorder

Many people think that eating disorders basically stop at Anorexia and Bulimia, but there's a eating disorder that's just as dangerous. Yet, people often over look this particular disorder simply because the effects of this disorder is the total opposite then the effect of the two most common ones listed above.
This eating disorder is called Binge Eating. Why people look over this disorder is because many classify it with just being greedy. Without realizing that in some cases the person in question is actually dealing with a mental illness that can only be fixed with the proper medical procedures such has rehabilitation. Binge Eating is often classified has emotional eating. Where a person turns to food to fill a void within themselves.
A lot of time was introduced to a child during childhood. Mainly everyone use food as a form of celebration or gatherings in general. For example if a woman is going through a bad break up she normally drowns herself in Ice Cream or If its your birthday you go to your favorite restaurant or have a party with all your favorite food. For a emotional binge eater the feeling of rejection or excitement could send them on a binge fest.
The reason I decided to write about this topic is because of how often people who struggle with this eating disorder are mistreated and looked down upon. See it in this sense a binge eater and a anorexia person basically have the same problems one just see food as a enemy the other as a friend that would never left their side. The anorexic person would loss weight to an extreme point the binge eater would gain weight.
Yes, losing weight is as simple as stop eating so much and exercise more often but what if you couldn't stop eating so much. To a binge eater its like telling them to give up the only thing that makes them happy.
I hope this short segment shined a little light on something many people over look.
So the next time you see an obese person obviously eating to much instead of skinning up your nose maybe you could be that person to feel the void that the food is currently filling in their life.