Writing in the Las Vegas Review Journal, Kristi Eaton covers the range of binge-eating disorder, and includes a passage on me and my experience. I have never been diagnosed, but certainly I could have been had the diagnosis existed when I was doing that sort of thing.

As the story notes, binge-eating disorder is almost certainly going to make it into the DSM V, when it comes out in 2013. Now, only anorexia, bulimia, and "eating disorders — not otherwise specified" are accepted as diseases in the manual, which is the diagnostic bible of the American Psychiatric Association. As I said other times, I welcome the addition, heartily, but still feel it does not go far enough.

One portion of the story I particularly noted:

"Binge eating disorder is the very rapid consumption of large amounts of food and calories with no internal mechanism to turn off the appetite, so they continue to feel hungry," he says, adding that people with BED do not get the same feeling of fullness or satiety in the brain that most people do after eating a meal.

The "he" is Dr. James M. Greenblatt, medical director of Eating Disorders Services at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, Mass., and what he describes in not quite my experience.

When I was binging, I wasn't unaware that I was getting full. Well, maybe I was at first, compared with a "normal eater," but fullness wasn't the goal. In fact, it became the problem, when I wanted to continue eating and my body wouldn't let me! Bulimics I know would have purged at that point, but I never did that. Or, I haven't so far.