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Everybody has to eat. But Samantha had to eat seconds — and more.
In the depths of depression and anxiety, whenever she felt low or stressed, Samantha says she felt “an overwhelming need to find something to eat.”
The binge eating cycle started when Samantha was a girl. Childhood taunts that she was fat quickly became a self-fulfilling prophesy. She began hiding food in her room. She ate until she was uncomfortable and she never purged. When it was all over, when she couldn’t eat another bite, she felt guilty and ashamed. And the cycle started again.
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