The stereotype that to struggle with disordered eating you have to be a certain weight is a huge misconceptionThis isn’t actually unusual.
The stereotype that to struggle with disordered eating you have to be a certain weight is a huge misconception. But not enough people understand this.That one word, atypical, stopped me from getting help.
Hospitals turned me away and told me to ‘just eat’, peers disbelieved my story, inpatient help was denied due to my BMI – all this created a bitter relationship between me and my mental health.I wanted to get better, but my anorexia wanted me to get worse.
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