Hello and welcome back to the ESG Fitness Podcast.

If you haven't listened to the last episode, please get and listen to it first.

If you have, welcome.

So to continue from the last discussion on the last episode, which if you haven't listened to,

you should go and listen to, I wanted to touch on binge eating and to, I was going to say preface.

Is that the right word? Pre-pre-curs? Pre-face? I don't know which is right. Anyway, before I talk

about this, I am, I just want to make this clear. I am certainly not trying to suggest that binge eating disorder doesn't

exist, nor are eating disorders my area of expertise by any stretch of the imagination. I simply want to

talk about the problem with misdiagnosis, which is happening more and more, honestly, with all mental health conditions.

And there's a big downside to this.

So there's obviously the huge upside of more people talking about mental health.

But I think, and I hope that this all comes across in the right way,

because I think it's quite hard discussion to talk about.

But there's also the downside of misdiagnosis because then you can become I guess like limited by your own perception of what's

going on which might not actually be going on so with it like I feel like I'm talking around the

subject so I'm just going to give the example that came up with a

client this week and kind of comes up in quite a lot of discussions to an extent. So binge eating

comes up a lot with clients and it's a tricky one because the word binge is often used as slang,

right? So binge watch Netflix or something like that. so it's important to then distinguish if someone is

occasionally overeating which you know most of us do right and calling it a binge or if they have

binge eating disorder which is characterized by a loss of control when eating and almost like a compulsion

to eat so if it's the latter,

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