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Excessive eating 12 times in 3 months is no longer a manifestation of gluttony and the easy availability of really great tasting food. DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) has instead turned it into a Psychiatric Illness called Binge Eating Disorder.
I suspect many Thru Hikers will now be able to add yet another Disorder to their list of current disorders. I intend to embrace with great pride and two hands :)this new disorder when I do my thru hike.
See the article below for more info.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5_b_2227626.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5_b_2227626.html)
Old Hiker
01-02-2013, 13:37
Can I get ADA payments for this???? :rolleyes:
Can't take responsibility for anything these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvujknrBuE
evansprater
01-25-2013, 12:24
I had this disorder long before I got on the trail. The trail was certainly conducive to it, however. I always just thought it was called "being a man".
Tuckahoe
01-25-2013, 12:29
Yeah, I am glad to know its not my fault I got fat... I had a disorder!
HikerMom58
01-25-2013, 12:44
I think someone already started a thread on this topic but that's OK... :) I think some people use an eating disorder as an excuse or they could see it for what it is - a reason to get some help. Prob. more as an excuse...
rocketsocks
01-25-2013, 12:57
Excessive eating 12 times in 3 months is no longer a manifestation of gluttony and the easy availability of really great tasting food. DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) has instead turned it into a Psychiatric Illness called Binge Eating Disorder.
I suspect many Thru Hikers will now be able to add yet another Disorder to their list of current disorders. I intend to embrace with great pride and two hands :)this new disorder when I do my thru hike.
See the article below for more info.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5_b_2227626.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5_b_2227626.html)Buddy....you need serious help, try 1-800-thru-hike :D
SCRUB HIKER
01-25-2013, 14:43
What about 12 times in 3 days on my triple-zero in Damascus for Trail Days? Where does that put me? I ought to be put in a straightjacket and institutionalized.
HikerMom58
01-25-2013, 16:00
What about 12 times in 3 days on my triple-zero in Damascus for Trail Days? Where does that put me? I ought to be put in a straightjacket and institutionalized.
Ha ha!! The DSM-5 just makes it sounds big & bad. Someone can also have "disordered eating".... LOL! Maybe that's how we can "label" all thru-hikers. ;)
An ED is nothing more than having an unhealthy relationship with food. While ED's are nothing to laugh about.. I guess "testing positive" for having one, you would be "labeled" as having a form of mental illness. But, that's not to be confused with having a psychosis. You can have a mental illness without being psychotic....I'm quite sure.
flemdawg1
01-25-2013, 16:05
Can I get ADA payments for this???? :rolleyes:
Preferrably on a Pizza Hut gift card.
Thirsty DPD
01-25-2013, 16:10
Ha ha!! The DSM-5 just makes it sounds big & bad. Someone can also have "disordered eating".... LOL! Maybe that's how we can "label" all thru-hikers. ;)
An ED is nothing more than having an unhealthy relationship with food. While ED's are nothing to laugh about.. I guess "testing positive" for having one, you would be "labeled" as having a form of mental illness. But, that's not to be confused with having a psychosis. You can have a mental illness without being psychotic....I'm quite sure.
I second, "I'm quite sure.".... I am not psychotic!
HikerMom58
01-25-2013, 16:38
I second, "I'm quite sure.".... I am not psychotic!
LOL.... Yeah, I will change that to- I know that, for sure!! One can struggle with a lot of things like depression, ED and many other things without developing a psychosis. It's important to make that distinction!!! :0)
bigcranky
01-25-2013, 16:57
I know people with serious, life threatening eating disorders. I'm really not sure that overeating one day a week is quite the same thing.
Another Kevin
01-25-2013, 18:02
DSM-5 seems to be set up so that everyone can be diagnosed with something. It appears that the headshrinkers have joined the securocrats in the war on the unusual (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html).
I'm sure that the DSM-5 people would classify long-distance hiking as a "behavioural addiction:" "a compulsion to repeatedly engage in an action until said action causes serious negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being." In other words, everyone who's got hurt on a hike, or had hiking get in the way of a relationship, or run out of money hiking, has a diagnosable mental disorder.