Yolk

by Mary H.K. Choi

A binge is defined as that freight-train feeling I know too well. That rush. The helplessness. The hostage situation. The compulsion to eat everything to blot out the feelings of anything else. The peace of feeling as though you’re choking because putting things in your mouth and then taking them out is the only thing in an unmanageable world that feel you can control.

“Yeah, but there’s no leader. It’s like an independent-study cult where your homemade God helps you learn about your feelings.”

make an action plan to eat and follow it.