"This is not the normative overeating that we all do, by any means," said Dr. B. Timothy Walsh, a psychiatrist at Columbia and the New York State Psychiatric Institute who is working on the manual.

“无论怎样，这并不是我们做的普通的过度暴食。”B .蒂莫西·沃尔什说，他是此书的编辑之一且为可伦比亚和纽约州精神病研究协会的精神病专家。