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When weight loss praise masks dangerous restriction

My mom keeps commenting on how 'healthy' I look now that I've lost weight but I'm eating 800 calories a day and she has no idea I'm slowly disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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External validation for self-destruction creates a cruel double bind where visibility and invisibility become equally dangerous.

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