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When your mental health struggles conflict with cultural beauty standards

I need help with my eating disorder but my culture celebrates my body type and no one understands why I would want to change

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal distress is being invalidated by cultural norms that frame the problem as the solution.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mental health across cultures — stigma and access?”

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