Yes, exactly, when you are having compulsive behavior, you need support (in the form of individual therapy, support group, 12-step group) or otherwise to help deal with the behavior around binge eating.
In treating compulsive behavior, we manage the behaviors around the compulsions. In cognitive behavioral therapy, we manage the thoughts that lead to the behaviors. In truth, you don’t have to do the behavior. You only have the belief that you have to do the behavior. If you had to do the behavior, then without it you’d die. You have to breath to live, but you don’t have to binge, you only believe that you have to. If you can learn to manage the belief by reminding yourself that it’s a compulsion or a cognitive distortion, that’s it’s not real (even though it feels real) then you can begin to fight with that urge.
In treating compulsive behaviors, we don’t get rid of the compulsion, we work with the behaviors that are a result of the compulsion. Medication can help with the actual compulsive thinking, but learning how to react to the thoughts are what can help control them. Alcoholics don’t quit drinking because they’ve lost the urge. They work with the urge and go to meetings and talk through what they’re feeling and get support from others in the same boat to stay sober. Same with food recovery. For those who cannot stay sober with outpatient treatment, who are unable to see past the compulsion or reject it in any way, medication and residential treatment might be the more realistic way to get clean.

I started to binge after years and years of extreme food restriction undertaken due to hypothyroidism. Decades of sensory deprivement have left me ravenous for stimulation, and now I’m in such a state that it seems impossible to stop. YES, just because I want it DOES mean I HAVE TO have it- that’s why it’s called a disorder. If I had the ability to stop myself (I just spent the last dime to my name on oatmeal creme pies) then I wouldn’t be seeking support- I’d just be another person with a cutesy food craving, as opposed to a sick person with food COMPULSIONS.

I’m sorry that you’re going through this. But i’m happy that you stopped to write a comment. Sometimes the act of doing something different can actually interrupt the binge so that you can make a choice to have a different action.