Compulsive Over-Exercising (COE)

People suffering from COE will exercise beyond what is necessarily or safe. In the same way that someone with BED will eat emotionally, someone with COE may exercise in order to deal with stress, anger, sadness, and other negative emotions.

This disorder should not be confused with the exercise purge of some anorexics and bulimics. These bouts of binge exercising do not occur at the same time as starvation behaviour or binge eating.