Compulsive overeaters are individuals who suffer from an obsession with food and a compulsion to eat despite the resulting negative effects on their physical and emotional health and well being They eat to satisfy an emotional hunger, whether this hunger is for love, for comfort or for a sense of control over something in their life

Most of us are filled with fear of one kind or another: fear of change, fear of success, or fear of failure We fear making mistakes, being alone, ending relationships or starting new ones