DSM-5 Binge Eating

Based on author Rae Earl’s 2007 book My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary, a collection of real diary entries from the author’s youth was adapted into British television series. In the pilot of the series Rae (Rachel Rae Earl), She was released from the psychiatric hospital where she’s spent months recovering from a suicide attempt. “I’m 16, I weigh 231 pounds, and I live in Lincolnshire,” she writes in a diary whose entries are binned as the show’s narration. In many senses, she’s a regular, working-class high scholar in a small town; it’s her weight and her mental illness that make her both an outcast at school and self-defecating to herself (Wightman 2015). This type of character is rarely portrayed on Television. Rea struggling with
These occurrences feature at least 3 of the following: consuming food faster than normal, consuming food until uncomfortably full; consuming large amounts of food when not hungry. Consuming food alone due to embarrassment; feeling disgusted, depressed, or guilty after eating a large amount of food (Hooley., Butcher, Nock, K., & Minrke 2017). Overall, they feel significant distress about their binge eating. Their binge eating episodes occur, on average, at least once per week for 3 months (Hooley., Butcher, Nock, K., & Minrke 2017). Comorbidities are seen within individuals with eating disorders, personality disorders are commonly reported in individuals that have binge eating disorder. It is also stated in the book Abnormal Psychology (2017), that a third of patients with eating disorders have engaged in different types of self-harming (cutting and burning) (Hooley., Butcher, Nock, K., & Minrke.) These standards in the DSM-5 are clearly depicted in this