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Scenario

When friend groups develop eating disorders together in college

My college roommates and I all developed different eating issues during freshman year — one counts every calorie, another purges, I restrict and over-exercise — and we've created this toxic environment where we're competitive about food and bodies but also the only people who understand each other.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A peer group has become both the source of eating disorder behaviors and the primary support system, creating a complex web of mutual enabling and understanding.

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Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Eating disorders — all presentations?”

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