Sentence examples for compulsion to eat from inspiring English sources
— Eric Asimov The Washington Post: Hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the last 10 years for pica, the mysterious compulsion to eat dirt, ashes, chalk, soap and other inedible substances.
Mr Evans had been a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Pontyclun and was suffering from pica, a rare disorder which makes the sufferer feel a compulsion to eat non-food items.
In this, I think, lies the crux of much childhood obesity – a feeling of powerlessness, of being lost inside your body and at the mercy of your compulsion to eat.
Their new EU-funded study says the real problem underlying our unhealthy food consumption is the psychological compulsion to eat because of the pleasure and satisfaction we get from food.
It's curious and complicated being the parent of a child with a compulsion to eat".
Sufferers have a strong compulsion to eat, which persists alongside the sense of a loss of control.
For example, anorexia nervosa is recognized as a psychiatric disorder due to the physiological and medical conditions that arise from the compulsion not to eat.
When people with BED can establish strong relationships with others, they can better vent out their problems thus controlling the compulsion to binge eat.
Some have said that Aron is driv en by a strange compulsion to alien ate people, more often those who are with him than those against him.
Based on the Y-BOCS, the YBC-EDS is designed to assess the presence and severity of obsessions and compulsions related to eating behaviours, weight, and exercise.
