Binge eating disorder is when a person consumes almost 2-3 times the amount of food they would normally consume in just a few hours. Individuals eat completely uncontrollably until it hurts. In this eating disorder, which is beyond the person's control, even if the person wants to stop themselves during an attack, they cannot. People with this disorder usually hide their overeating from their environment. Because they feel great shame and regret after the attacks. People with this disorder, which is often associated with depression, resort to eating more to hide the shame they feel. Thus, they find themselves in a vicious circle that they cannot get out of. Most people do not realize that they have this condition, so they do not realize that there is a condition that needs to be treated. 

SYMPTOMS OF BINGE EATING DISORDER 

- Eating food much faster than the normal rate of eating, by stuffing it into one's mouth.
- No matter how much they eat, they do not feel full, the feeling of satiety disappears.
- Not being able to stop eating during the attack. 
- Feeling ashamed and embarrassed after the attack has passed.
- Because of the shame they feel about their eating attacks, they isolate themselves and eat in secret from their surroundings.
- After the attack, the person does not make any effort to take back the food they have eaten. 

Binge eating disorder is often confused with other eating disorders. However, there are important points that distinguish binge eating disorder from other eating disorders. People with this disorder do not try to induce vomiting or exercise excessively after an episode. In addition, this disease can be seen not only in people with obesity, as expected, but also in people of normal weight. However, if left untreated, it can lead to excessive and uncontrolled weight gain, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, sleep problems and even cognitive problems. 

 FACTORS THAT CAN CAUSE BINGE EATING DISORDER 

GENETICS: In some patients, it can be observed that this condition is hereditary. 

DIET: Some diets that the person follows for the purpose of losing weight by setting excessive rules and limits for himself/herself may cause binge eating disorder. 

PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS: Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety disorders. 

GENDER: For biological reasons, binge eating disorder is more common in women than in men. 

TREATMENT METHODS

Like other eating disorders, this is a treatable illness. Treatment should be started quickly after diagnosis. In order to be diagnosed, binge eating episodes must occur at least once a week for 3 months. During this period, the medications prescribed by the psychiatrist should be used regularly and the underlying causes of the illness should be investigated with the help of a psychologist. The first aim of treatment is to control the attacks and then to reduce and eliminate them in the long term. In addition, it should be investigated what may trigger the attacks and this should be addressed. After the psychological part of the treatment is over, it is necessary to establish a diet and a healthy lifestyle.

The starting point of this experiment: "Does the obedient individual see himself as a subject responsible for his behavior?". Here, authority, obedience and conscience are at the forefront, as well as learning and memory. Milgram conducted his experiment in a special department of Yale University. He found his subjects from newspaper advertisements. Because he did not look for any characteristics in his subjects.  In his first experiment, he included men between the ages of 20-25 and did not tell the participants the main purpose of the experiment. He told them that he was investigating "the effects of punishment on learning" and started the experiment. In the first stage, "teacher and student" were selected by a lottery with the other participant. However, the other participant was part of the experimental group and was written as a teacher on both papers. So the subject will be chosen for any kind of teacher role. Thus, the real subject was the "teacher" and the member of the experimental group was the "student".  After the lottery, the teacher and the student were taken to different rooms where they could not see each other but could only hear each other's voices. 

During the experiment, the teacher gave the student a list of words to learn and memorize, and for each incorrect answer, the teacher administered a progressively increasing electroshock to the student. However, the student (the collaborator) was not actually given an electroshock, but a recorded electroshock and a screaming sound from a voice recorder to make the teacher believe. Each time the level of the electroshock and the sound of screaming was increased. The electroshock level was even increased up to 450 volts. Some subjects asked for the experiment to stop, but were warned by the experimenters to continue. If the subject insisted on quitting after 4 warnings, the experiment was stopped; if they continued, it was stopped after 3 consecutive applications of 450 volts.

RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT

In the Milgram experiment, despite the sounds of screaming, pain and crying, no one stopped applying the electroshock before 300 volts. Although all of the subjects stopped at some point and questioned the experiment, they decided to continue the experiment after the warnings. It was even observed that 26 of the 40 participants applied the 450-volt electroshock, albeit in a restless manner. As this experiment shows, under normal circumstances, a compassionate and thoughtful person can do what he or she feels obliged to do in the face of strict management and authority and make someone suffer. The person, however innocent and harmless, can become a powerful weapon in the face of authority.

So ordinary people can be part of the process of destruction. There are very few people who can resist and rebel against authority, even though the evil of what they are doing is obvious.