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Why Eating Disorder Recovery Is Like a Game of ‘Whac-A-Mole’
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If you’re living with an eating disorder, you’ve probably heard that recovery isn’t a straight line. But early in your recovery, when you’re making strides in the right direction, you might be surprised to discover that you can’t always eliminate every single eating disorder behavior at once.
As you reduce your most frequent eating disorder behaviors, it can be easy for other behaviors to crop up — and coping with the new behaviors can make you feel like you’re playing a twisted game of “eating disorder Whac-A-Mole.” I naively went into my first round of eating disorder treatment assuming that it would be easy.
I convinced myself that I didn’t engage in most of the eating disorder behaviors I was asked about in my initial assessment, so I’d
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