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Eating Disorders
Includes anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder / compulsive overeating, and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). Mental illnesses involving a combination of thoughts / feelings, behaviors, and symptoms linked to eating/food and weight gain/loss and body image and physical symptoms.
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When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at
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― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
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Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.
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― Wintergirls
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