Self-Sabotage Series – Article 2

December 28, 2018 Matthew Tweedie

What is binge eating?

Binge eating disorder is a serious, distressing, life-threatening eating disorder which is characterised by recurring bouts of eating huge quantities of food. During the binges, a lack of control is often experienced followed by feelings of shame or guilt.

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The Emotional Game Beneath the Cards: Why Your Best Poker Lives or Dies in Your Nervous System

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If you play poker seriously, you have probably had the same unsettling experience more than once. You study. You review hands. You understand ranges, position, pot odds and the maths of the situations you keep finding yourself in. Away from the table, calm and unhurried, you make good decisions almost automatically. Then you sit down, the cards come out, something goes against you, and a different

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Shy Bladder Syndrome: Why Your Body Won't Let You Go in Public

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You walk up to the urinal, or step into a busy airport restroom, or close the narrow door of an aeroplane lavatory. You need to go. You have needed to go for a while. And nothing happens. The harder you focus, the more your body seems to lock. Footsteps approach, a tap runs, someone shifts their weight in the next stall, and the window closes completely. You give up, wash your hands, and walk out still needing to go.

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How Hypnotherapy Works for Insomnia: Reaching the Patterns That Conscious Effort Cannot Touch

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Why Sleep Hygiene Is Not Enough: The Limits of Conscious Effort for Chronic Insomnia

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If you have done everything you have been told to do, maintained a consistent sleep schedule, cut out caffeine, put your phone in another room, bought the right pillow, lowered the room temperature, taken the supplements, tried the meditation apps, and still spent night after night lying awake, you may be wondering what you are doing wrong.

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What Recovery From Retroactive Jealousy Actually Looks Like

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Why You Spend When You Feel: Understanding Emotional and Impulse Spending

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If you have ever bought something you did not need, opened a shopping app in the middle of an anxious night, or walked away from a checkout feeling a hollow mix of temporary relief and quiet dread, you already know something important: spending is not always about things. Sometimes it is about feelings.

This is not a character flaw. It is not a lack of willpower, poor financial literacy, or some failure of discipline that other people seem to manage effortlessly. Emotional spending is a learned pattern, and like all learned patterns, it made sense when it formed. The nervous system found something that worked, and it kept using it.

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