Overeating Disorders – What Kinds are There?

Sharon spends the late evening hours at her flat dreaming of biting into luscious pieces of chocolate cakes and choco-chip biscuits. Mark has this habit of creeping down the hallway after midnight, just so he could satiate his itch for a few tall glasses of café latte, after which he would vomit it all and go to sleep exhausted by the ordeal. Jenna never has lunch at the office. In stead, she drives around in her little convertible, collecting burgers and fries from a number of shops before she drives to some secluded spot and eats everything she has bought.  

For a long time now, food has come to mean a lot more to us than physical sustenance and satiation of natural, biological hunger. Food is shown as the ideal way to celebrate, to show love and feel satiated. Food ads, restaurants and takeaways have worked together to make food mean a lot more than it should. Due to factors such as these, many people have developed a number of overeating disorders.

There are many kinds of overeating disorders.

Anorexia: Anorexics are intensely aware of their body image. In their minds, they are fat and frumpy. The fear of becoming fat coupled with extreme notions of the right kinds of food make anorexics stay away from food. They diet unnecessarily and follow a rigid pattern of eating. Thus, they become reed thin and unhealthy. Many anorexics go for days without proper food. Extreme cases may even lead to hospitalization and death.  

Bulimia: This is the opposite end of the spectrum. Bulimics experience powerful cravings for food. So, they stuff themselves with amounts of food that is totally disproportional to their hunger levels. Some bulimic eat until they feel physical pain. However, like anorexics, bulimics too have an inherent fear of gaining weight. Since they have little control over their eating habits, bulimics have found a work around. They eat all they want; then, they seek to undo the harm through purging. They may use natural methods, laxatives or intense starvation to control their body weight. 

Compulsive overeating: This is the same as bulimia, except that episodes of colossal overeating are not followed by purging. This results in overeaters gaining enormous amounts of weight and crashing headlong into obesity.

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