This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Maybe you stock up on ice cream after a difficult day at work or reach for chocolate after a disagreement with your partner.

Over a two-year period, Arlin Cuncic was hit with a tsunami of stressful events. Early in the chaotic COVID lockdown her mother died of cancer, and the following year her brother passed away suddenly.