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When eating disorder treatment ignores cultural food relationships

My eating disorder treatment team is all white women who keep talking about self-care and I cannot explain that food is love in my family and restricting feels like rejecting my heritage

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing approaches are inadvertently attacking cultural connection rather than addressing underlying distress.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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