Eating disorders
are often portrayed as dramatic problems that are impossible to miss, leading
to disastrous outcomes. There is no doubt that there are many cases like
this, but in most cases, eating disorders go unnoticed for prolonged periods of
time. Both anorexia and bulimia can be hidden until there are large
changes in body weight and muscle wasting. In fact, in the case of
bulimia where a person binges and then purges themselves of food, it can be
totally missed. A major point to understand about eating disorders is
that they are psychological problems. They're not necessarily all about
weight. There is a distorted body image that takes control and it can
affect behavior, but the important thing to realize here is that each case is
individual and we need to get help, sometimes at the psychiatric level.
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