How to control anxiety before and after meals?

Through psychotherapy, you're given strategies to cope with these situations, for example, by taking your mind to pleasant places a few minutes beforehand, places that give you strength and release you from the pressure of that moment. Sometimes anxiety can be so intense that you need medication to help regulate your thoughts and provide a different, non-recurring focus on eating or compensatory movement; in other words, relaxing the body relaxes the mind. Medication is like a crutch for someone recovering from a fracture; we'll use it for a short, necessary period, and then we'll stop taking it.