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When friendships become enabling around disordered eating

My best friend and I both struggle with binge eating and we've become each other's 'food confessors' — calling each other after episodes, sharing shame, promising to do better tomorrow. But I'm realizing our constant focus on our food failures might be keeping us both stuck in the cycle instead of actually helping us heal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mutual confession and commiseration has become a substitute for actual recovery work.

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