[Two Pronged] I’m prone to eating my feelings
‘It doesn’t seem to matter whether I’m lonely, happy, stressed, or simply bored — almost every intense emotion in my life has become an excuse to eat’
‘It doesn’t seem to matter whether I’m lonely, happy, stressed, or simply bored — almost every intense emotion in my life has become an excuse to eat’
Rather than neatly condense all the violence and trace it to one root cause, psychologists choose to ask the difficult questions about each individual case. Each child in conflict with the law is not just a perpetrator, but a highly vulnerable person.
Despite carrying one of the highest mortality rates among psychiatric illnesses, eating disorders remain a healthcare blind spot