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How to cope when eating alone triggers binge episodes

I can eat normally around other people but the second I'm alone I binge until I can't move and then hate myself for hours afterward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Solitude has become a trigger for losing control, making the very privacy needed for recovery feel dangerous.

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