To those saying overeating is an eating disorder, you are Incorrect:
“Research that has come out since the last major revisions to the DSM 15 years ago justifies the classification of binge eating as a disorder in its own right, says Dr. B. Timothy Walsh, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University Medical Center and chairman of the eating disorders work group for this version of the DSM.
The DSM is known as the bible of mental illness. These are the ones who classify what is considered a mental disorder. Overeating might be unhealthy, but it isn’t a mental illness, unless the person engages in “binge eating”!