Here you can find articles that may answer your questions and support you in your personal recovery work.
You'll also find a series of inspirations and affirmation that may help you stay on your healing path. Please remember, helping yourself does not mean going it alone. Helping yourself means discovering what what you can do to support your own recovery. That includes how to recognize opportunity and reach out to people as well as books, websites and classes, who are in a position to offer you genuine recovery help on your journey to healing.
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You are really searching for information now. You are checking out self help manuals, exploring affirmations, reading the symptoms of eating disorders, scaring yourself with medical information on the consequences of obesity, starvation and purging, lurking on eating disorder discussion lists, writing notes and information requests to online authors and psychotherapists.
Why do obese people overeat?
Occasional overeating to soothe and comfort
If you cannot tolerate your feelings or let yourself be aware of unpleasant reality or believe you must present yourself to others in a way that does not match your genuine self, you can reach for food to soothe or numb yourself or help to present a false face to others.
On a particular occasion when you are frightened, angry, sad or lonely you may reach for ice cream, pop corn, chips or cookies to get through a few bad hours.





