Binge Eating/PTSD

Hm. A new adjective to an old diagnosis. Delayed PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) instead of acute PTSD. The difference? Acute happens right after the trauma. Delayed happens several years after the trauma. While experiencing PTSD for the first time, it was acute and chronic. Though buried in my mind it came out through Binge Eating Disorder (BED). Now the PTSD is delayed. That means it's getting better even though the psychiatrist says it's the cause of all the other mental illness except of course for the chemical ones. It doesn't feel better because the trauma surfaces as it needs to but at least I can see progress.

As I was looking for a definition of delayed PTSD I discovered other symptoms and treatments. When I was at Rogers Memorial in Wisconsin for the eating disorder I was diagnosed with bulimia. But what was really true is the binge eating disorder. Here's why: (taken from http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/binge-eating-disorder)

(BED) is characterized by a loss of control over eating behaviors. The binge eater consumes unnaturally large amounts of food in a short time period, but unlike a bulimic, doesn't regularly engage in any inappropriate weight-reducing behaviors (like excessive exercise, vomiting, taking laxatives) after the binge episodes.

That makes sense to me. Just like the causes and symptoms:

Binge eating episodes may act as a psychological release for excessive emotional stress. Other circumstances that may predispose an individual to BED include heredity and mood disorders, such as major depression. BED patients are also more likely to have an additional diagnosis of impulsive behaviors (for example, compulsive shopping), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorder, or personality disorders. More than half also have a history of major depression. In 2002, the American Psychiatric Association was considering including BED as a psychiatric diagnosis.

So I guess today is just gathering more information. Information that will advance healing and hopefully ignite change. These new medications are kicking my butt.