How is binge eating disorder treated?
As with most psychiatric conditions both medications as well as psychotherapy help.Cognitive behavior therapy is a mode of treatment that has been proven to be useful for anxiety, depression and Bulimia Nervosa. Please review details in our section on Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) on this website. Briefly CBT is a tool used to change the erroneous beliefs that patients have about food and their body. The focus is not on weight loss but on reducing abnormal eating behaviors. This gives the patient a sense of control that helps improve self esteem. Our patients have lost weight while in the CBT group, but that is not the focus of treatment.Medications such as Topiramate have helped patients in group to lose weight and reduce frequency of binge episodes. Antidepressant and medications that reduce anxiety can also help when patients have been eating in response to emotions of stress and anxiety. I have been seeing bariatric patients since 1999. An increasing number of patients have soug
