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Great question. Eating disorders are the result of an inability to properly process emotional feelings. Repressed trauma, etc ... manifest themselves in behaviors meant to soothe and anesthetize, but wind up getting completely out of hand.

Start a journal. Develop friendships with people with whom you can develop a trust that will enable you to feel safe saying anything. Get proper sleep and exercise. (most eating disorders are related to a detachment to one's own body.)

If you feel yourself to be in danger of eating disorders, get yourself to a 12-step meeting for people suffering from eating disorders.

These groups know exactly what the sufferer is going through because they are all living with the same disorder(s), although each may be at a different stage of recovery/functionality. The principles they espouse are rock-solid. It's an ingenious program. No matter how smart or well-educated a doctor is, he/she is looking at you and your disorder... from the outside.

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