You close the delivery app. Open it again. Close it. The argument ended twenty minutes ago but you're still standing there holding the phone.

Not hungry exactly. Not craving anything specific.

Just... needing something.

You order anyway. Eat quickly. The anger doesn't disappear, but for a few minutes it becomes background noise instead of the only thing in your head. That's the point, isn't it? Not to fix anything. Just to make it quiet enough to function.

This pattern of eating to suppress anger isn't really about food. It's about what you learned to do with feelings that felt too big, too dangerous, or too uncomfortable to express directly.