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Kalidurga

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1. I am torn on whether this is a good thing or not.
Wed Feb 11, 2015, 12:09 AM
Feb 2015

On one hand raising awareness and showing what bulimia is without shaming is a good thing. Because shame drives behavior underground and then it can become deadly in the case of eating disorders. I am all for people saying they have a problem and getting help.

On the other hand a lot of confessions from people who have eating disorders are looked at not as a cautionary tale, but as instructions on how they can improve their own eating disorder and that is something people who already have eating disorders are going to be prone to doing.

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