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When food becomes medicine for emotional wounds

I cannot stop eating until I feel sick because food is the only thing that makes me feel better when I am upset.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inner child found solace in the reliable comfort of food when human comfort was unreliable or unavailable.

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