Brain Chemistry
Brain chemistry is another factor to consider if you are hooked on food. It is the interaction between one’s own manufactured "brain chemicals" and one’s behaviour, whether that be ingesting sugar or other chemicals or "acting out" behaviour, that stimulates the brain to establish compulsive and addictive behavioural patterns.
Certain neurotransmitters give us an "excessive rush" when we ingest addictive chemicals, resulting in a compulsion to keep the "feel good" rush coming.
We manipulate our moods by looking for stimulants like sugar, alcohol, drugs or nicotine to make us feel better.
This behaviour is repeated when we engage in repetitive behaviours like running, overeating, relationship dependency, workalholism, gambling, addictive shopping sprees and sexual activities, to release our inner chemicals that give us that "feel good" rush.
Foods containing sugar are the drug of choice of many co-dependents. Our chemical and behavioural patterns are the results of being co-dependent, not the cause. There is a correlation between brain chemistry, co-dependency and emotional overeating.
The missing jigsaw pieces to emotional overeating and alcohol dependency... co-dependency and brain chemistry
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