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What is OCD?You often hear the phrases that someone is “So OCD” or that they wish they had “a little OCD” so they would be better about cleaning their home. As someone who has spent much of my professional life helping those rebuild their lives that have been taken by...

One of the things that I see frequently is someone who eats a “normal” amount of food, but that eating event is accompanied by all of the other hallmarks of a binge eating episode.  What happens in this case?   In prior blog posts, I referenced Loss of Control as...

Eating disorders are a very interesting type of mental health disorder – these diagnoses look very simple from the outside, but diagnosing folks experiencing disordered eating will often be much more complicated in real life.  It is uncommon for eating disorders to be...

The act of binge eating can be very upsetting.  In fact, distress about the amount eaten is a piece of what we are looking for when we are assessing binge eating episodes!  To learn more about what binging is from a clinical perspective, please take a look at this...

Binge Eating Disorder is a recurring pattern of eating large amounts of food with associated loss of control in a discrete amount of time.  While this sounds pretty straightforward, in practice this definition is pretty vague and leads to a lot of confusion for people...