DO YOU HAVE BINGE-EATING DISORDER: THE BED TEST

This is a test to see if you have binge-eating disorder. One disadvantage of diagnostic tests is that they place people into categories of either having or not having a particular problem. Keep in mind that there are variations of every problem and that your binge-eating syndrome may be severe, moderate, or even mild. Even if you only have some of the symptoms of binge-eating disorder, you may still need help. If your binge eating, no matter how infrequent, keeps you from achieving your weight goal, you need help as much as a more severe binger.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The diagnosis of binge-eating disorder assumes that you do not regularly engage in any of the following behaviors. If you do any of these twice a week or more, you may be suffering from bulimia nervosa. This problem is more serious than binge-eating disorder and would require an evaluation by a clinic or a professional specializing in eating disorders.

• Make yourself vomit in order to avoid gaining weight after binge eating
• Take more than twice the recommended dose of laxatives in order to avoid gaining weight after binge eating
• Exercise for more than an hour specifically to avoid gaining weight after binge eating
• Take more than twice the recommended dose of diuretics (water pills) in order to avoid gaining weight after binge eating

1. During the past six months, did you often eat, within any two-hour period, what most people would regard as an unusually large amount of food?

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