Why do I numb with food?
When we use food to numb painful feelings we also numb or minimize our capacity to experience pleasure and joy. Taitz emphasizes the importance of living fully while learning to accept, feel and regulate the expansive nature of all of our feelings.
What can numb your emotions?
The mental health conditions most often associated with emotional numbness are depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Emotional numbness can also come up in some dissociative disorders, which are connected with a personal history of trauma.
How do I stop suppressing my emotions with food?
Don’t deprive yourself. This may just serve to increase your food cravings, especially in response to emotions. Eat satisfying amounts of healthier foods, enjoy an occasional treat and get plenty of variety to help curb cravings.
How do I stop feeling numb when I eat?
So, to summarize:
- Cultivate awareness, be honest with yourself about how you are using food.
- Know the situations and foods that make you vulnerable.
- Acknowledge your emotions instead of pushing them down with food.
- Find new, healthier ways to address difficult emotions.
What are the most common negative emotions which lead to overeating?
[25] found that anger/frustration, anxiety and sadness/depression accounted for 95% of the moods preceding a binge-eating episode. Anger and frustration in particular, preceded the urge to binge more often than sadness and depression.
Does eating numb pain?
Many will numb out by eating and watching Netflix (the food paired with escaping into a good story makes for some powerfully effective distraction/numbing). They find it hard to watch a movie or show without eating the entire time.
Why do I stress eat so much?
From a physiological standpoint, stress causes your adrenal glands to release a hormone called cortisol. When this happens, you may notice an increase in appetite and a desire to eat sugary, salty, or fatty foods. However, this urge to eat isn’t the result of an empty stomach.