Episode 31 - Food Addiction
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2018
- Compulsive eating is a complicated psychological and biological problem. Food addiction can be a way of defending against unmet needs by displacing emotional hunger onto food. We discuss how infant experiences with eating and soothing can shape one’s relationship to food in adulthood. Two fairy tales tell of parents with insatiably devouring babies and illustrate the consequences of failure to develop affect regulation and how that can lead to various vulnerabilities to addiction. The dream:
My skin (not sure what body part) had green mold on it, like the intense green mold that grows on an orange. When I try to peel it off, I discover it is about a centimeter thick and that it comes away in spongy chunks leaving a very uneven skin surface-once again, like the contrast between peel, pith, and segments of an orange. I feel alarmed. I stop peeling worrying the whole structure will collapse.
Would love to hear a part two of this theme
When I was in my thirties (i am 62 now), I was a compulsive overeager. Aka, an emotional eater. I was then disconnected with Self and how to truly love and respect myself. THE MEDICINE? I attended my first 12 step meeting called overeaters anonymous that CHANGED MY LIFE. At the time it was the hardest thing I had ever done. The secret weapon? It was 100% about a Dhea ring to what OA calls, staying abstinent. Abstinence in this context was eating three planned meals a day plus a snack… sitting down… with mono foods not counting as a meal, where as three items counted, if that makes sense.
❤All I know is it was THIS critical 3 meal a day plan that somehow arrested all emotional eating. No other counsel was needed. Rather, it was the regulation in the physical that somehow rebalanced the mental emotional. 🎉
Really interesting and comprehensive take on what i might consider to b esulfuric, fatty rich sweet, side of eating habits/disorders. Which is looking for something of fatty rich and sweet substance and it's taken into food.
Then there is another side on this if we take in James Hillman's alchemical psychological model. Where sulfur is opposed by salt: curing, preserving (=killing), rigid and dogmatic realm, whiteness. Which if taken into realm of food is adherence to diet, be it vegan, fasting, anorexia, keto, all sorts of religios diets etc. Where utter fervency towards one own diet rises up, combined with stern belief that this is the best thing because salt removes moisture, sadness and muschy heaviness, and gives sense of ease and lightness with clear cut borders.
I follow lot of discussions in so-called fitness-sphere and this dogma to one's own diet seems very distinct, and it's the one which makes diet to "stick" around, unlike sulfuric method. There are plenty of things to which people hang themselves, but this diet-thing seems to be one most powerful and people really go down the rabbit hole with that one. And being thing from realm of salt it provides results, it makes diets work.
But i suppose food addiction is purely on the sulfuric side of this axis, it seeks but can't find. Perhaps there would be need for pinch of salt?
The fairy tale of The Gingerbread Man speaks to this theme, too.
Could you do an episode on self injury/cutting?
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I do wish that you wouldn't use the pointless terminology.
@UCLLSlC36YpFGcOh_83nDj1g Like you’re trying to regulate my speech by criticising what I said? Hypocrisy 😝