National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Signs Someone You Know Is Battling One
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Julia Austin
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Rapid weight fluctuation and denial
Rapid weight fluctuation is an obvious indicator, but that alone isn’t always a sign of an eating disorder. If your friend’s perception of the weight change doesn’t seem grounded in reality, then that can be a sign of an eating disorder. So, for example, if she has become incredibly thin but speaks of having to still lose weight. Or if binge-eating has caused her to put on a tremendous amount of weight, but she blames her inability to fit into clothes on other elements like the dryer shrinking them, or all of her favorite clothing brands making their clothes smaller. If she perceives herself very differently than others, struggling to grasp reality, there may be an eating disorder occurring.
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