Stop prescribing one eating disorder to treat another: Why under and overeating are not “opposite problems”

Throughout my recovery journey from anorexia with a propensity for compulsive exercise, I have often heard, in a tone full of self-judgment, “I have the opposite problem.” What the person is typically referring to is that they feel they eat too much, exercise too little, or both. The self-judgment usually reflects the way society places

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