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When weight restoration feels worse than the eating disorder

My therapist says I need to gain weight but I'd rather die than go back to how I looked before and I don't know how to tell her that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The cure feels more terrifying than the disease, creating an impossible choice between physical and psychological survival.

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