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This is why you should never tell someone ‘you don’t look like you’ve got an eating disorder’

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This is why you should never tell someone they don’t look like you’ve got an eating disorder. (Picture: WatchCut Video)

Despite being counted as one of the most common types of mental illness around the world, there’s still a lack of awareness about eating disorders: what they actually are, who can have them, and how we should talk about them.

Eating disorders are still treated as a punchline to jokes about models. They’re still viewed as something only young women have. And we still fail to talk about anorexia, bulimia, and other patterns of disordered eating in a sensitive way.

It can be difficult. Especially when you… Read the full story


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