Interesting Observation Tonight

[Guest guest]

Was watching one of the shows about hoarders tonight on cable. Don't know why,

but I find these shows sort of perversely appealing. Kind of like a car

accident. You don't want to look, but you can't help it because you've never

seen anything like it before!

But tonight, I was watching and the psychologists were talking about how each of

the women being profiled on that particular show were hoarding objects to either

deal with feelings they didn't want to address or to make themselves feel good

when nothing else did, and I realized they were doing the exact same thing with

stuff that we do with food! Seems like that should have been obvious, really,

but it didn't strike me until today. Don't know why, but that's just an

intriguing concept to me.

The other thing I read recently (and I wish I could remember which book I read

it in, but I'm reading something like four IE books all at once!) was about

eating and addiction. I've always rejected the idea of being addicted to food.

I just couldn't relate to it. But one of the books I was reading talked about

being addicted to the *process* of eating as a way to deal with emotions, rather

than being addicted to the actual foods, themselves. And that, actually, made

much more sense to me. Don't know if that helps anyone else, but I found it a

useful idea.

Josie

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