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Emotional Overeating Part 2 - Dr. Marcia Sirota

"Dr. Vincent J. Felitti of the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in San Diego California describes how he and his colleagues did a population-based analysis of over 17,000 healthy, middle-class American adults to explore the relationship of what he calls “adverse childhood experiences” to the development of addictions. His conclusion was that childhood experiences of hurt, loss, trauma or neglect all contribute to the development of addiction, whereby a greater variety of adverse experiences is correlated with a greater likelihood of having one or more addictions. Through this study, Dr. Felitti recognized that addictions are unconscious coping devices as opposed to a brain disease, a chemical imbalance or a case of faulty genetics.

As Dr. Felitti points out, these types of experiences are a lot more common than we’d like to think, but both the affected individuals as well as the clinicians treating them have a strong resistance to recognizing this truth. If you’re to overcome your own compulsive eating or other addiction(s), you’ll have to open your mind to the possibility that you’ve suffered at least one of these adverse events (more if your addictions are severe or multiple) when you were growing up.... 

Think of it this way: dealing with your eating problem could be a way for you to finally become conscious about unresolved childhood issues...."

http://www.thecanadiandaily.ca/emotional-overeating-part-2-how-to-tell-if-youre-doing-it/

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