The Emotional Unconscious Eater uses food as the predominant way to cope with emotions, especially uncomfortable emotions such as stress, anger, and loneliness. While Emotional Unconscious Eaters view their eating as the problem, it’s often a symptom of a deeper issue. Eating behaviors of the Emotional Unconscious Eater can range from grabbing a candy bar in stressful times to chronic compulsive binges of vast quantities of food.