Not only is this the most preachy, condescending response I've seen in a while, it's also the most useless.
I never asked anyone where to buy drugs;
I never requested or asked for a "reliable, safe pill that makes you stop craving chips and start craving lettuce";
If it wasn't obvious, I already figured out "[...] why [...] compulsively eat [the wrong foods]": it's caused by massive desensitization of dopamine and serotonin receptors in the brain. That was pretty plain from my first fucking paragraph.
The DO make pills that make people stop craving porn, MMOs, and other things as well; they're called dopamine antagonists. In fact, here's a big list, just for you.
Why would you make the asinine assumption that I've never even attempted psychological treatment? Whether I have or haven't, first of all, is none of your fucking business. Secondly, it's not your job - or that of anyone else, for that matter - to go off issuing everybody their own personal disclaimer. Either answer the actual question asked - not emitting useless platitudes, but providing actual answers - or just shut the fuck up.
Finally, you failed to comprehend the basic problem, not to mention the entire point: sheer physical mass of food isn't the issue as is often implied by terms like "overeating" or "compulsive eating". I don't feel compelled to just eat everything in sight (again, this is obvious from the three adjectives in the big-ass letters near the top of the page that comprise this thread's "subject"), it's specific kinds of foods that all have one thing in common: they all cause an overreaction of the brain's reward center, which leads to higher and higher levels of tolerance over time, thus making regular food inadequate to elicit the same effect and thereby forcing a really fucked up ultimatum: stay fat or endure literally painful withdraw. When you have an actual addiction happening on a neurochemical level, all the therapy and willpower in the world, especially when combined with all the holier-than-thou platitudes you can muster, won't do jack shit but drive an already trapped, mistreated, angry, frightened and cataclysmically depressed human being further into the arms of their addiction. After all: unlike you, it actually makes them feel good.
I've really liked the articles I've read via Nerd Fitness in the past and made this post with the hope that somebody had at least the smallest idea of how neurochemistry and neuropharmacology can interact to drastically alter the way our brains and bodies respond to our environmental inputs, and with such knowledge perhaps they had embarked on an actual science-based approach - as opposed to the obviously failed "bullshit based" approach of "willpower, yay me, my shit doesn't stink, therapy fixes everything!, I'm so great because I think I worked harder than everybody else and that's why I'm awesome! weee!" that obviously doesn't work for over 90% of the poor folks who've been subjected to this toxic elitist bullshit for their entire lives - to solving the fucking problem.
And instead, I get this pulpit-based, arrogance-filled regurgitated pyschobabble thrown in my face that actually makes raw feces look useful by comparison.
Next time you feel like chiming in, at least have a fucking clue, bring something to the discussion not quite so obvious as "the sky's blue and water's wet", and answer the question asked instead of using it as your own personal pulpit for looking down upon we poor, inferior plebeians in a failed attempt to make yourself feel better about your own obvious inadequacies.
