Good question, Rapiddash. I've done the whole Overeaters Annonymous thing and while it did help, it never actually solved my problem. I do eat for emotional reasons, that I'm well aware of. I was molested as a child, and had a very unsatisfactory relationship with my Homecoming Queen mother who never stopped reigning. She felt she deserved better then an Ugly Duckling Daughter... or a Cow, as she used to call me.
So yeah, for me, childhood things did cause me to turn to food and its taken me a lifetime of reading, talking, attending meetings, etc, to get to where I even recognized my emotional relationship with food as a problem. The thing that helps me the most is a low carb diet because it lessens my cravings and helps with my gastrointestinal problems. But to go into a doctors office and have my problems be dismissed because I'm overweight, I resent that, and it happens more times then not.