What are the causes of compulsive overating and more generally the causes of eating disorders?
Working for years with people suffering from compulsive eating disorders and binge eating disorders, I realized that the need for food is so anchored in their mind that the causes of compulsive overeating had to come from a very deep place. • Indeed, eating is one of the first things we learn, along with breathing… At a very early age we associate pleasure and love with eating, especially as babies when fed by our mom. • Also, we know and feel instinctively that our natural state is to feel good. So when we don’t feel good, one way to counter a negative feeling that we learn at a very early age and which works on a consistent basis is to eat. Eating changes our physiology and our chemistry. Eating food literally changes the way we feel. So, if you really want to understand what causes binge eating and the causes of compulsive overeating, you need to realize what prompts people to overeat. People overeat because it is pleasurable and it helps them to change the way they feel. The caus
