To get rid of food dependence, you need to understand the true causes of its occurrence. A psychologist or psychotherapist can help with this, but understanding the problem on the part of the patient is also important.
If you imagine a portrait of a person suffering from food dependence, then the picture will be depressing. Most often, this is loneliness and the absence of any hobbies, when the only joy in life is the satisfaction of hunger. Food is a "friend", comfort, the most affordable way of possible joy.
Such people are not able to withstand even the most insignificant experience, which seems much more global than it actually is. In the end, when it becomes necessary to get rid of the dependence of encouraging oneself something tasty for another stress, the body responds with a protest.
Where does taste impairment come from?
Understanding that treatment is necessary, you need to understand the true cause of what is happening, which most patients who have asked for help should look for in their childhood. There are frequent cases when responsible parents try to feed their beloved child by all means, and triumph if almost an adult portion is eaten to the end.
What does the child feel? It is unlikely that he enjoys the process of eating and feels the taste and aroma of the portion, lovingly prepared by his mother. At this moment, it absorbs, choking on a large volume of pieces or spoons, without feeling the taste.
If this action takes place every day, then huge portions soon become commonplace. The child eats at dinner much more several times than he needs, regardless of the physiological feeling of hunger and taste sensations. Medicine calls this condition "oral frigidity."
Another standard situation in the family is related to such costs of upbringing, when a good appetite and a completely eaten portion for the sake of mom or grandmother become a cause of praise and general joy. The child feels almost a winner and also rejoices that he is well done today.
But if you just refuse or underestimation, then inevitable insults, reproaches and other forms of discontent. Mom sometimes perceives this as a personal insult that her works at the stove were not claimed. Thus, a guilt complex is formed in the child, which can be redeemed only by the next portion eaten.