We Know The Dangers of Eating Disorders—So Why Are We Still Celebrating Weight Loss at Any Cost?
glamour.comBy It’s hard to describe what it feels like when you’re complimented for the symptoms of your eating disorder, a chronic mental illness.
It’s hard to describe, yes, but that hasn’t stopped me from trying. Repeatedly. Over the course of the last two decades, I’ve written countless articles on the psychology, biology, and manifestations of eating disorders in their many forms, trying to make some sense of .
And after a while, you start to understand the reasons why you occasionally hate yourself and your body and why you’ve been labeled with a diagnosis: there’s the possible , the forever-elusive standard of beauty shoved down your throat, and the desperate desire to control something, anything in all this chaos.
But the one piece of the eating disorder puzzle that remains so tough for me to wrap my head around is the constant, steady stream of messaging that all those “disordered” thoughts and behaviors you know are killing you could be considered admirable if you just switched a hashtag or two.Let me explain.
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