@ ludovico , thanks! I tried that on my first playthrough, but if you get high enough confidant rankings, the characters smack the status ailments out of each other (....is this a spoiler...?)... So while all my lads were hungry, Morgana (the only person I had a high enough rank with at the time) kept slapping the hungry out of them ! I was !! Very rage fueled !!! Never hated Morgana more than in those moments. I wish there was a way to disable it.
I'll look into a way to prevent that from happening if there is one, but I might just have to pray to RNG again. :,) Thanks for the tip though.