an eating disorder is a mental condition, and that the physical problems that occur are side effects, and so it will never work to use the strategy of trying to seize and pull apart the problem in one’s hands, by carefully monitoring a body, by trying to stuff that body with food and squash the eating disorder out. It was never simply an eating problem to begin with. What I am suggesting is that the more everyone zeroed in on my eating problem, measuring my body, monitoring my diet, balking at my compulsive exercising or the peculiar behaviours I collected as easily as Pokémon cards, the more
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