Recently I've been getting some treatment for acute anxiety some counselling and beta blockers which is helping a lot. However I'm actually noticing that some very long term behaviours I've had for a long time like over eating, not quite binge eating but something like that, chronic addiction to sugar and some other behaviours around doom scrolling and procrastination that have plagued me for years are essentially stopping on their own.
Looking back I can see that often my urge to eat was tied to a restless anxious feeling and you could say the same for my procrastination and other bad habits. I don't think I even realised that I was suffering from anxiety it was just so much a part of who I was and instead I suspected adhd or that I was just a rotten person with no self discipline but now I think I might have actually been suffering from a kind of chronic somatic anxiety much of the time and was basically self medicating with food and other escapist behaviours.
Has anyone else ever noticed these issues, especially compulsive eating liked to anxiety?