Eating compulsively reveals symptoms

• April 24, 2024

When we come to this world, we seek to relate to who takes care of us, it is a matter of survival. We love and need who we are fed because we know intuitively that our life depends on it. Sometimes, that relationship disappoints us . Not because they do not want us, but because sometimes the conditions for knowing ourselves loved are not given. In those cases, some of us resolve the pain anesthetizing us with the food . And we become compulsive eaters.

Look how you eat, how much and why: Do you do it quietly or in a hurry? Do you do it to forget or to nourish yourself? When you suffer overweight It usually happens that you eat compulsively, you do not eat: you devour Eating by compulsion reflects very high levels of anxiety. It also reflects an inability to handle frustrations, reflects a need to evade your life.

Any compulsion manifests an urgent need to evade our reality. Maybe it's the rhythm you're taking, hurried, full of pressure. Maybe it's the fear that dominates you when reflecting on your life and before facing you, you prefer to have a problem that you think you can: the one of obesity.

Superficially, food relieves pressures and helps us face problems: however, overeating prevents us from living our lives fully. Actually, it is using food to avoid the risks of daily life. It is safer to love food than people. The food is always there, unconditional and silent. Do not complain, do not disappoint, do not disappoint. People complain, disappoint us, disappoint us and they are not always there for us, as we would like.

A eating disorder It is the symbol of how we relate to life: the act of eating replaces true intimacy and protects us from the risks that are present whenever we relate to others.

It may be that in your first relationships you have been disappointed, you may have felt so hurt that you decide never to risk loving again. You may have found comfort in the food. And by the way, when you get fat, you protected yourself to avoid relating to others. That way you do not risk.

The recuperation? This basically consists in stopping to give you comfort with the food and start identifying your needs of affection , know how to ask people for the love you need, relate, risk and recognize that relationships, all, are imperfect. No one can fill all our emotional gaps: that is only responsible for each one of us.

It also consists of recognize our anger and use the energy of anger to achieve goals, to get ahead and not to punish us. Because compulsive eating it is a destructive act, It is a way to hurt ourselves. It is necessary to recognize if you eat to live or if you live to eat. It is necessary to admit that we have a problem and that we need help.

When you stop eating for compulsion too, you stop pleasing others to fill your deficiencies in your physical appearance. When you put a limit on food too, you put limits on those who hurt you. When you exercise your freedom to decide to help you, you will stop helping others compulsively and you will begin to live, taking the risk, enormous, of loving.

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