Hi, Sabrina!

The line for what is an eating disorder versus not is distress. If the distress of your eating interferes with your functioning, that's an eating disorder. If your eating itself interferes with functioning, that's an eating disorder. (Those are general lines, of course, because for some people, disordered eating causes no distress...)

Emotional eating is a problem, binge eating is a problem -- in fact, one of the new disorders proposed for the next edition of the DSM is Binge Eating Disorder. Of course, they're also very, very common.

Despite the doctors telling patients that it's our own fault for gaining the weight, try to talk to your doctor about the weight -- those drugs really do cause weight gain, and for some people, only medications can help start the process of losing it. But for the eating part of this problem, therapy or support groups would help. There are a bunch of groups out there, OA if you like 12-steps, or ANAD or a few others. Try that, which gives you a room full of people who really do understand.

Godo luck, and hope that helped.