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Jon said
My drug of choice – chocolate, of course.
Shirah said
So, I understand you to be saying that, for you, chocolate mitigates all kinds of stress. It is nice to have an antidote!
Jon said
Yes, for me, chocolate is both a stress mitigator and a life style. It is nice to have an antidote; however, as William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, once remarked, “Everything I do is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. “ I go for the last of this trinity. ;>}~
anxietyadventures said
Oh dear, chocolate chip cookies, most definitely. I might as well rename them “my feelings” so others understand exactly what I’m ingesting when I say “I’m eating my feelings.”
Shirah said
I like that. Eating feelings as a variant of denial. Thanks.
Shelly said
Red River Chardonnay.
Shirah said
Alcohol is yet another variant of suppressing or numbing feelings. Essentially, chemicals change our brains so that the negative effects of the external world are somewhat, or totally muted. We can laugh about it because it strikes a chord in all of us. Once again, humor hits at our unconscious feelings.
Sarah Elbaum said
Almond milk or soy milk, chocolate flavor!