Eating Addictions

Eating Addictions

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Sharon Osborne talks openly about her emotional issues including the need to get up in the middle of a meal and go and make herself sick after eating a lot. That's called bulimia and has little to do with food and a lot to do with trying to find some emotional comfort through eating and then purging the guilt by being sick. We all call on things to reduce our emotional discomfort, like a drink or a drug or a gamble etc etc. However, when the taster doesn't prove to be enough we take some more, until we become reliant on it to keep us sane. Behold it has morphed into an addiction before we notice. These are all the symptoms not the cause. The cause is the initial bad feeling.…
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Depression Blog

Depression Blog

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DEPRESSION CAN BUGGER UP YOUR LIFE ! Depression is weird as it's often a result of a past experience that we've either forgotten about or avoid like the plague! So the first step is to track down the cause, with a therapist who is the emotional equivalent of a Red Indian tracker. Therapy helps us uncover the cause and deal with it. More details. Freddy Flintoff, the England, cricket captain found himself self medicating by drinking too heavily during the cricket world cup, as he had no idea why he was feeling so down. He wanted to sit by himself while the others wanted to celebrate their successes. `I just needed the doctor to tell me what was wrong, but nobody told me it was depression.` Winston Churchill used to…
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