Psychotherapy

• Psychotherapy teaches you how to make good choices with your eating instead of choosing bad choices. You will find the root of your problem or what actually causes you to overeat. You will learn exactly what triggers the desire to overeat. Interpersonal therapy looks at your relationships to see if abuse or other feelings of neglect are causing the binging. Another form of therapy will show you how to redirect your bad behavior to other actions so that you no longer eat in response to stress or other factors.
  
  

Medication

• There is no known medication that successfully treats binge eating, but there are a few that can control the symptoms that lead to the binge. Antidepressants can help alleviate the desire to binge. Topamax is a medication that is normally used to control seizures but it can help aid in controlling an episode of being eating. This is probably due to how it affects the brain and the chemicals in the brain. Meridia is a diet medication that can help control the feelings of hunger and can suppress the appetite to help calm cravings.
  
  

Diet

• Low calorie diets can help to control the weight of one that has binge eating. Low calorie diets are usually not a very good choice in treatment because when calorie intake is very low it can trigger binges. Any diet that is used for a binge eater should be monitored by a physician to ensure adequate nutrition. Diet is usually combined with psychotherapy to help ease the symptoms while assisting a person to lose weight.