• Eating unusually large amounts of food in a specific amount of time, such as over a two-hour period
• Feeling that one's eating behavior is out of control
• Eating even when full or not hungry
• Eating rapidly during binge episodes
• Eating until uncomfortably full
• Frequently eating alone or in secret
• Feeling depressed, disgusted, ashamed, guilty, or upset about one's eating habits
• Frequently dieting, possibly without weight loss

Criterion A. Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:

1. Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g. within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances.
2. A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).

Criterion B. The binge-eating episodes are associated with at least 3 of the following:

1. Eating much more rapidly than normal
2. Eating until feeling uncomfortably full
3. Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry
4. Eating alone because of feeling embarrassed by how much one is eating
5. Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty afterward

Criterion C. Marked distress regarding binge eating is present.

Criterion D. The binge eating occurs, on average, at least once a week for 3 months.

Criterion E. The binge eating is not associated with the recurrent use of inappropriate compensatory behaviour as in bulimia nervosa and does not occur exclusively during the course of bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa.

Specifiers:

• Remission specifier:
  • In partial remission
  • In food remission
• Severity specifier:
  • Mild
    Moderate
  • Severe
  • Extreme