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Oh. My. God.

In all seriousness, I'm sorry you went through this. I was also on food stamps for a while, and I noticed within a year or so afterwards that I had developed complexes and anxieties about eating healthy / nourishing / filling foods that I'd never had before. At my lowest point — i.e., when an antibiotic reaction-gone-horribly-wrong induced extreme superstitions and paranoia — I was *afraid* to eat, for fear of somehow incurring punishment. None of this came from how I was raised to view food. I suspect that quite a bit of it might have come from how guilty and ashamed I felt for using my food stamps to buy healthy and organic items, sensing the judgment of the other shoppers. It's awful. An extra ounce of empathy would do a lot of people a lot of good.