How I broke free from anorexia
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The Problem With Eating Slowly
Eating as slowly as possible is almost as much of a badge of honor as eating as little as possible because it's a public show of how ill you are. You're showing to all the other girls and women around you that you are the illest. That was the obsession I had with dying from anorexia. Like, I just thought that would really prove how ill I was. And being cooped up in that dorm and watching how these other women are eating or not eating, do you end up picking up some of their habits? Does it get worse?Yeah, of course. I mean, this is the problem with it, and I managed to stop, but not until
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