tertiary · Stressed

Fast Food

Part of the Mood & Food Wheel

What is Fast Food?

Easy, immediate, reliable, requiring no decisions — when stress is high, the cognitive load of choosing what to eat becomes one burden too many.

When you might feel fast food

Fast Food is a specific form of numbing, which itself is a type of stressed. You might experience this feeling in situations where stressed is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define fast food.

Emotional Hierarchy

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