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sadchatterbox,Hi!That's how I felt.It was like the same feelings that you've described.It took me awhile to break this habit.I still use food sometimes but I usually don't end up actually eating it most of the time.I just take it with me{like a granola bar}If I'm out there working on my agoraphobia.I used to also think that I had to eat at specific times.Like I had to eat lunch at exactly around eleven and dinner no latter than six or I'd go into a severe panic.It was so awful!I had to slowly change my thinking and start letting go of that bondage.That's what it is.A bondage.You are strong!Push through and don't give up!Food doesn't control you!You've simply have aloud it to.I have found out that anxiety comes in all kinds of ways.We have to work on one bad habit or phobia at a time.Once you break through one habit it makes it easier to conquer the next.It's a process.I've built up a list of them put I don't plain on giving up.Like I said I was able to pull out of what you're feeling right now and believe me at the time I didn't think I'd ever be able to do that but I did.You can too.Now I'm working on my agoraphobia which was severe.I'm overcoming it little by little.I still have to work on my panic attacks and the general anxiety.This seems to be the hardest.It makes sense because it's the core of the phobias.I'm pushing through.There is hope for all of these things that we go through the important thing is don't give up and Know that you're not alone.Yes others are dealing with it too but God is always with you.Trust Him.I promise that He'll never let you down.Take care and God bless!

Fear Not how did you accomplish taking the control back over the food. Your word "bondage" is very much how it feels. I never thought much about this before but I seem to allow anything and everything to control me instead of me controlling it. Why is that? Why do I let this happen? It's bad enough I have let the Agoraphobia/Panic keep me away from family events and a more normal life style for years but now I am letting my food control me to. This is insane! I have always felt like a robot starting way back in my childhood because my mother controlled my every move very seldom letting me do what most other kids my age were doing. I have always felt clautrophobic and held in like a leash around my neck because of her severe strictness. Later in life I realized she (who was also Agoraphobic with anxiety attacks) was just very protective over me because this was how her grandparents who raised her treated her. I just want to stop feeling like a robot letting everything control me and me becoming totally dependent on myself. I just wonder if that is possible for me now though beings I have been the way I am right now for the majority of my life. God bless. Susan