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Originally Posted by OriginalContentGuy
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Abuse happens and is correlated with Obesity. If you didn't know now you know.
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All that’s needed for more confirmation of this is just to watch any episode of my 600lb life. I’ve watched quite a number and almost always the person mentions a history of trauma, sometimes in the form of one or both parents suddenly dying, sexual assault, growing up super poor and not being able to afford food, etc
In those cases the person seems to use food, specifically very unhealthy food, as a form of coping and self-medication the same way others might turn to alcohol or drugs
But in those cases, or any case of morbid obesity, trauma is an explanation but shouldn’t become an excuse. I’ve personally never felt that losing fat in order to be appealing to the opposite sex is ever a good reason. But doing so to improve quality of life def is