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_refugee_  ·  3090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Neuroscience of Eating Disorders [OC]

Sure!

I watched the video and don't think it's really totally off-base in any way, but I do feel it's unhelpfully reductive. Knowing, for instance, there's often a link between abuse/trauma and development of an eating disorders makes suggestions like "EDs should be treated like addictions, not something 'to get over' " seem somewhat palliative and simplistic.

EDs should be treated by psychiatrists or trained mental health professionals - anyone telling someone to 'get over' a mental disorder or simply 'stop feeling that way' is not going to help whatsoever, no matter what the disorder is.