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How eating disorder recovery can trigger identity crisis about body image

My eating disorder recovery means I am gaining weight and I do not know who I am in a bigger body after being thin defined me for so long.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Healing requires inhabiting a physical form that contradicts years of self-definition, making recovery feel like a kind of death of the self you knew.

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