An eating disorder works to protect, repress, complete, divert, numb, or confuse these feelings and memories. Certainly it is not within a child’s realm of possibility to blame the abuser for what happened, but even an adult will tend to blame herself for the attack, making her body the focus for hatred and control. Stuffing down food will stuff down the anger and silence the voice that cries out, “Don’t do this to me!” Planning and executing a binge will numb anxieties and deny physical needs, such as hunger or affection. Being in charge of what does, and does not, go into the body is a way to symbolically regain that control which was lost during the original trauma.