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When eating becomes a performance anxiety

I cannot eat in front of people anymore because I am convinced they are watching and judging every bite even though I know this is probably not true.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The act of nourishment has become entangled with imagined surveillance and social threat.

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