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Maintenance Phase · April 27, 2021 · 60m

Eating Disorders

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
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Eating disorders: the most lethal mental illness, with mortality rates higher than depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. Why diet culture IS eating disorder culture, and how the same behaviors praised as 'discipline' in thin bodies are diagnosed as illness in thin-enough bodies.

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The true self buried under diet culture — recovering the self that existed before the obsession
Gordon describes eating disorder recovery as a process of excavating the true self from under layers of diet culture: the person you were before food became a moral issue and your body became a project.
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Highlights

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Diet culture and eating disorders exist on a spectrum — the same behaviors, different body sizes
Gordon presents the insight that the behaviors praised as 'discipline' in dieters (calorie counting, food restriction, compulsive exercise) are diagnosed as eating disorders only when the person becomes visibly underweight — the pathology is body-size-dependent, not behavior-dependent.
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