Night Eating Syndrome and Nocturnal Sleep-Eating Disorder: Any Success?

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In response to Any Success? posted by precocia2004:

There was some physical abuse in my family, although nothing that would have raised an eyebrow in a small Ohio town in the 1960's. It was the daily and humiliating emotional abuse from my father, who was a disturbed individual. Two of my other three siblings are wacko in their own way, and my other brother is probably too rich to care.

I think a lot of us who have had this condition for quite a long time have kind of resigned to it; like having a chronic bad back. For me, there is no doubt whatsoever that 99% of us had trauma as children and teenagers significant enough to re-wire out brains. No doubt, anti-depressants help us to live with it, But I don't think drugs can cure NES. I had two sessions with a therapist not too long ago who claims treatment that works maybe half the time for people how had childhood trauma. If you are like me, and can recall every episode of childhood trauma like it happened five minutes ago, and it gets replayed over and over in your mind a good bit of the time, then maybe this can help. I don't recall the name, but I will give it to all of you later.

Somehow, though all of this, I can only conclude I have an entire orchestra of guardian angels that kept me out of jail and the nut house, and allowed me, in some ways, a very rewarding life. If and when I am able to stop this compulsive behavior, I will share it with everyone, and that will be my calling. This disease is secretive and hardly known, even in the psychiatric communities. My heart goes out to all of you.

-- posted by GWM_IN_LA