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When eating disorders feel like your only source of specialness

I want to recover but I'm scared that without my eating disorder I'll just be boring and ordinary and no one will care about me anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The disorder has convinced its host that suffering is the price of being interesting, making recovery feel like choosing invisibility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.