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? Binge-eating disorder-resembles bulimia nervosa, except that the person does not regularly engage in purging, fasting, or excessive exercise to compensate for binges
? Diagnostic criteria-recurrent episodes of binge eating that occur in a discrete period of time (within two hours) and a sense of loss of control during the eating; binge episodes are associated with three or more of the following: eating more rapidly than normal; eating until feeling uncomfortably full; eating large amounts of food when not hungry; eating alone due to embarrassment or guilt; eating amounts that lead to feeling disgusted, depressed, and very guilty; marked distress of binge eating is present; binge eating occurs at least once a week for a three-month period; the binge eating is not associated with the regular use of inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as purging, fasting, or excessive exercise, and does not occur exclusively during the course of anorexia or bulimia nervosa.
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