When I was 19, I suddenly started compulsively eating on a near daily basis. I’d come home from work and eat dinner, then dessert, and that wouldn’t be enough, so I’d eat cereal and toast and whatever else was in the cupboards.
It felt like no matter how much I ate, I was never full. I just had to keep eating until eventually I ate so much that I physically couldn’t eat anymore.
For a long time I thought I was just being a pig; greedy, ‘fat’ and undisciplined. I felt like I had no control over what I was doing - I would just eat to try and satisfy this feeling of intense hunger that never seemed to go away.
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