Food addiction : Obesity
Control and release are natural polarities in human activity. What an obese person actually need to release is their anger by expressing it.
Food addictions are combination of genetic factors coupled with distorted emotional coping. Food addictions are clear syndromes of toxic shame. Figures range from 34 million, with 60% women and 50% of men being overweight. Generally strong defensive rationalisations are used to "excuse" obese behaviour and deny its life-damaging consequences. In some cases, children learn to repress emotional expression and to stuff their feelings with food. Obese people feel empty, lonely and eat to be full and filled (fulfilled). Anger manifests in the gut and eating and being full take away the feeling of loneliness. Obese people often act jolly and happy to cover up their fear of the potential shame if they expressed deep sorrow or anger. 95% of people who diet gain the weight back within 5 years. In dieting, one has the sense of controlling and fixing the problem. Control is one of the major strategies of cover- up for shame. Covering up is the attempt to control the outside so that the inside will not be exposed.
Control and release are natural polarities in human activity. What an obese person actually need to release is their anger by expressing it.
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