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CPOY 75 Interpretive Project Silver: Day 1 - Binge Eating Disorder

Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most widespread eating disorder in Denmark. It is a severe, life-threatening disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food. Going along is a feeling of loss of control during the binge and experiencing shame, distress or guilt afterwards. Suffering from BED is closely related with bad self- esteem, often a difficult childhood, sometimes abuse and a life centered around weight loss. Few people know about the phenomena, but 40.000-50.000 Danes are suffering from it. Their lives are all about hiding what they consume. They have all tried every possible diet but every time it ends in failure. And for every pound lost there are more pounds gained. Obsessive thoughts about food are constantly there. All though BED is the most widespread eating disorder in Denmark, there are only very few opportunities to receive treatment. Recently WHO has released the new international classification of diseases (ICD 11), and BED is now to be recognised a an eating disorder. It will come into effect on the 1st of January 2022.

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December 11, 2019
Jan has always been overweight. “I have always been the short big one. As a child I was nicknamed; Shorty, Bear, Beef and Fat Idiot. Jan was already hospitalised at the age of six because of his weight. Shortly after he was hospitalised at a psychiatric ward for children. And when he was twelve years old, he was sent to a home for overweight children. All of it because of his weight. “I consider myself as a severely obese person. Whether it is because the health care system sees me like that, or not, I don’t know. But I guess that is what I am?”
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