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rob shwab's avatar

My opinion is shaded by my experience with an adolescent female family member whose mind and body was overtaken by an overwhelming anxiety that she was the wrong shape. This was called an eating disorder.

She was not treated by affirming her image and desire to be gaunt and thin, nor by removing part of her stomach. She was treated for a mental disorder.

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