Binge eating disorder (BED), a psychiatric condition may be linked to emotional abuse, says a group of experts.

It is believed that BED Sufferers have negative associations linked to food and land up with compulsive overeating. This seemingly becomes difficult as the patient often associates self to specific histories of childhood sexual or emotional abuse if he does not tend to eat.

David M Dunkley, a psychiatric researcher and clinical psychologist at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) in Montreal, and his colleagues studied a group of 170 BED patients and found that childhood sexual abuse or emotional abuse is often abandoned with the thought of excessive wanting for food and if a BED patient does not divulge in eating he gets severely affected by the nightmares.

It is stated that people who are BED sufferers are linked with some kind of childhood abuse and thus should be taken care of.

This result was published in International Journal of Eating Disorders.