In this episode, Dr. Glenn Livingston, author of Never Binge Again, tells us how you can help yourself, or others, stop binge eating, and other addictions. You can make money while helping others! There's nothing wrong with that.
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1. "It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you." Fill the empty hole in your heart and you'll stop overeating. Nurture your inner wounded child back to health.
The problem is, the part of the brain which responds to food addiction – the reptilian brain – doesn't know love. It's much more primitive than that.
"Love" lives in a different part of the brain, the same part you more accurately think of as "YOU". So does spirituality, music, art, friendship, work, long term goals, etc.
Winners aim for perfection – take mistakes seriously and analyze them – but then forgive yourself for these mistakes and move on.
This wears down your willpower.
Rules preserve willpower and build character.
You need to feel just a little bit to get your attention – but then let it go after you've learned from the mistake and made corrections.
The study on the neurobiology of addiction3 referred to in the CMAJ editorial1 looked at the brains of people with addiction after they had damaged them by their behavior — brains were not examined in their premorbid state. This is analogous to saying that the sequel of a traumatic brain injury were themselves the cause of said brain injury.
Addiction is self-acquired and is not transmissible, contagious, autoimmune, hereditary, degenerative or traumatic.
Treatment consists of little more than stopping a given behavior.
True diseases worsen if left untreated. A patient with cancer is not cured if locked in a cell, whereas an alcoholic is automatically cured. No access to alcohol means no alcoholism, whereas a person with schizophrenia will not remit if secluded.
Sepsis will spread and Parkinson disease will worsen if left untreated.
Criminal courts do not hand down verdicts of "not guilty by virtue of mental illness" to drunk drivers who kill pedestrians.