Module 1 - Types of Eating Disorders 4

Diagnostic Criteria: BINGE EATING DISORDER

• A.Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
• 1. Eating within a two hour period an amount of food that is definitely larger than most individuals would eat in a similar time frame under similar circumstances.
• 2. A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).
• B. The binge-eating episodes are associate with three (or more) of the following:
• 1. Eating much more rapidly than normal
• 2. Eating until feeling uncomfortably full
• 3. Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry.
• 4. Eating alone because of feeling embarrassed by how much one is eating.
• 5. Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty afterward.
• C. Marked distress regarding binge eating is present
• D. The binge eating occurs, on average, at least once a week for three months.
• E. The binge eating is not associated with the recurrent use of inappropriate compensatory behaviour as in bulimia nervosa and does not occur exclusively during the course of AN or BN.

LEVEL OF SEVERITY SPECIFIED BY # BINGE EPISODES PER WEEK