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Scenario

When recovery becomes performance on social media

My daughter posted about her eating disorder recovery and got hundreds of supportive comments but now she checks her phone obsessively waiting for the next validation hit

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Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing shared publicly can become another form of the original wound, trading one compulsion for another.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media — psychological effects?”

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