Bingeing and Cutting….is there a connection?
I was thinking after reading a buddie’s blog and I wonder? Is eating is another way of ‘cutting’. Do we do with food what some do with a knife. We are all hurting ourselves, just in different ways. Is it despair or a cry for attention? Or maybe a little of both? I don’t know….it just occurred to me that there is a similarity. Maybe if we keep this in mind the next time we’re tempted to ‘cut ourselves with food’ we’ll be able to control it. ?
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Absolutely, I think there is a similarity. Not as intense, but def is used as a defense mechanism. I am sure that is why peoples ay they are “emotional eaters”. They eat to numb their feelings, which I assume, are painful ones. Way to point it out.
Yeah there’s a definate similarity. They are both addictions which act as substitutes for emotions we can’t express, whether we dont want to express them, whether society doesnt want us to express them or whether we’ve repressed the instigating emotion so deep into our unconscious that we arent even aware of it anymore. I’m starting to understand all this a bit more with my course.
Good Blog Sandy!!!
Lot to think about there
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Jane
I absolutely think so!!
Wow. Powerful. That certainly gives me (an emotional eater) something to think about.
Wow! That really gives me something to think about! (Being an emotional eater…)