Coping mechanisms are compulsions, or habits formed over time, that serve to help a person manage with particular situations or stress levels.
Not all coping mechanisms are maladaptive or destructive; however, addiction is both.
Addiction can take many forms, from addictions to drugs and/or alcohol to addictions to shopping, gambling, sex, internet use, eating, and other behaviors.
Almost every person I’ve ever worked with that wanted to lose weight has had a history of using food to deal with stress. Stress from work, family, relationships.
Understanding nutrition is rarely the biggest problem it’s breaking the cycle of poor stress management.
Numbing your feelings might feel like the most comforting thing to do at the time. However over times if you take a step back you may realize the tools you use to numb the feelings you don’t want to feel are making your situation worse.
Self sabotage is a hell of a drug.
Get help and realize you don’t have to do it alone, you got this.
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