Can you truley ever overcome addiction?

I don't think you can. I've had a problem with food. Every time I have a big personal problem as the dead of a member of my family or something terrible happens to me my eating problem starts again. You have to learn to live with this problem, but you never overcome it. You know, sometimes you are weak, you have to fight against your demons and you try to have willpower to avoid your addiction, but sometimes saying it is easier than doing it. I think that if you have any kind of addiction you have to learn to live with it as I'm afraid it will always be there. Right now I'm happy and in peace and it is as if I have never had a problem with food, it is during the bad moments when I have to be on alert.