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Why eating disorder thoughts hijack normal social eating

I ate three cookies at a work party and immediately planned out how I'll restrict tomorrow to 'make up for it' and I hate that this is my brain.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A moment of ordinary human pleasure instantly activates a punitive internal accounting system that turns joy into debt.

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