Suffering from overeating, Dominique is overweight: "I can't stand myself anymore"

Dominique is hyperphagic.

Unable to fall asleep, she gets up at night and eats compulsively without feeling hungry.

At the microphone of Olivier Delacroix, on "La Libre antenna" of Europe 1, Dominique deplores the lack of support for overweight people suffering from eating disorders.

TESTIMONY

Dominique suffers from binge eating, a disorder characterized by episodes of binge eating.

She does not eat during the day, but gets up at night to eat compulsively.

It is only once sated that she manages to fall asleep.

Dominique is overweight because of her binge eating attacks.

She explains that she cannot be taken care of in the hospital because she is not obese.

She also cannot find a nutritionist specializing in eating disorders.

On "La Libre antenna", Dominique is sorry not to be taken care of properly.

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"I am 67 years old. Since I was a teenager, I have had problems with food. I went from anorexic to bulimic phases. For about twenty years, I have been hyperphagic, that is to say that I'm a non-vomiting bulimic. I have major psychological problems. I'm not obese, but overweight. I can't stand myself anymore. I hate myself. I'm really bad about myself. my life I realized that my mother had problems with weight My sister is anorexic I lost my 26 year old niece to anorexia When I lost my niece ago in about twenty years, my impulses have redoubled. 

I can't seem to get out of it.

I try by all means to find structures, but I cannot.

Where I live, there is no structure to accommodate overweight people.

I tried, but if you only have about 15 pounds to lose, there is no structure.

I am told that I am not fat enough because I only have about fifteen pounds to lose.

For me, this is huge.

It's sad.

I am completely lost. 

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You have to be obese to be taken care of

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I am followed in the hospital, but they tell me that they cannot take care of me, because I have a body index below 30. You have to be obese to be taken care of. So I cannot be followed in the nutrition department. I don't know if this is normal, but it is like that. I asked the hospital if there were any specialists for eating disorders. There is a psychiatrist, but it is the cross and the banner to have an appointment. I don't know where to go. 

I had a friend who weighed 110 kilos.

She was immediately taken care of by the nutrition service and the addiction service.

I cannot be taken care of.

I am followed by a nutritionist in the private sector, but she is not specialized in eating disorders.

She can't help me like a specialist doctor.

There are no nutritionists specializing in eating disorders where I live.

The doctor I saw at the hospital told me it was very underserved for these issues, even though it is still a big city. 

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I must eat whatever comes to hand

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I am not obese, but in my head I am as bad as someone who weighs 100 kilos.

I have anorexia attacks, I don't eat all day.

I eat 200 or 300 calories during the day.

On the other hand, I eat in the evening.

I have binge eating attacks at night.

I fall asleep, but I wake up an hour later.

I have to go downstairs and eat whatever comes to hand, sweet, salty ...

I make myself pasta and rice.

As I live on my own, I don't have much in my fridge.

I try not to buy too much food, but I can always find something to eat.

I cook myself a kilo of pasta.

I am able to eat sugar and eat industrial quantities of food.

They are impulses.

Impossible to stop me.

I can't get out of it.

I try, but I can't.

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It caused me big health problems.

One evening, I was at a friend's house.

I went down the stairs to get some food.

I ran down the whole stairs.

I broke my radius and humerus, and I fractured a vertebra.

I stayed in bed for 45 days, all because of the binge eating attacks I have at night.

When I explain this to doctors and I can't find any help, it turns me off.

When I ate like this, I feel like a baby who cries all the time, gets bottle-fed and ends up falling asleep because he's full. I can only fall asleep when I'm full. Otherwise, I can't. I'm like a bottle-fed baby who calms down and can fall asleep. I'm all alone, but I'm not bored. I lost my husband. It's been 12 years since he died. But it had started before. "