When Megan te Boekhorst first heard that people were stockpiling food as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, anxiety swept over her.
The Toronto-based marketing and communication professional lives with binge-eating disorder, and the idea of certain items being unavailable in grocery stores became a trigger.
While te Boekhorst had been getting treatment, her in-person meetings recently stopped due to physical distancing regulations.
Although the government has noted Canadians will not experience a food shortage, the thought of scarcity concerns her. “Whenever we’re talking about the lack of access to food, I get scared and it brings out that strange, almost uncontrollable feeling in me, where I just want to eat everything in sight — even