But to me, there is something deeply unethical about a scared twelve-year-old begging for help and crying ‘I can’t do this,’ only to be met with a blank chorus of ‘Sure you can.’ You know the end of this story already; I got out of there, and ultimately everything did get better, but, when someone is in such a fragile state of mental health and finding no source of comfort, I don’t know that it always would get better. Personally, when it comes to anorexia recovery, I don’t approve of solely treating the body and turning a deaf ear to the soul crying out for help. A soul can still drown in a
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