"Binge Eating Disorder" is a proposed new category, but isn't official yet. I think that we can get addicted to behaviors, including eating. Since we all need to eat, that makes controlling an addiction to eating that much harder. When someone is addicted to a substance they can (though it is very difficult) stop using that substance entirely, and avoid exposure to it. But you have to eat, so you can't do that with food. Then again, I think that there may be a personality trait that makes addiction a greater likelihood, making it easier to become addicted to anything - substances, food, behaviors - and also harder to overcome. In that case, no matter what the addiction of choice is, I think there is a tendency even in fighting one addiction to replace it with something else. It isn't easy. There are reasons why we turn to addictions, no matter what they are, in order to cope with the difficulties of life, and we can learn better and more productive ways to solve problems and feel better. That's what we have to do.

Wendy

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