What do you think about binge eating?

I've had it for a while and nobody seems to think it's an eating disorder. I'm not looking for advice for it, but I want to know, what do you think it is if you don't think it's an eating disorder?

I don't want to start a fight so I'll use my side of...

the debate now::

Eating disorders are DISORDERS OF EATING, not getting too little nutrition. Sure, absolutely everybody binges sometime in there life, but binge eating disorder is deeper than just overeating once. It's a mental thing, and when a binge eater starts the binge, he or she can't stop, or they just do it way too oftenly. That's the eating disorder part of it.

So many people that I've met just say that it's not an eating disorder and I don't understand that. Please, no fights. I just wanna hear others thoughts on binge eating disorder.

Well mental disorders, according to the APA... present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (I.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom

Since binge eating disorder presents distress, and results in an increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability (through obesity), it qualifies as a disorder...

Now of course, people could look at it as a symptom of another disorder, however, one could also seen anorexia and bulimia as being symptoms of other disorders. Since they are categorized in their own right as eating disorders, it makes no sense to say binge eating disorder is not a disorder...

Binge eating...with or without purging IS an eating disorder...

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its an eating disorder
plain and simple