Come As You Are
Diet culture. Fatphobia. Weight stigma. The media. Racism. Societal “beauty ideals.“ The computer you’re holding in your hand right now. Omnipresent access to images, of bodies that look like yours, and bodies that don’t. Omnipresent messaging about those bodies. Omnipresent access to food cures, food solutions, miracles.
Is it any wonder that the rates of eating disorders have doubled between the years of 2000 and 2018? And that is not to mention the MANY who are uncounted because of lack of screening or appropriate diagnosis.
Disordered eating is so elevated in our culture, that I no longer care about whether or not someone has an actual diagnosis.
A struggle with food is real and valid.
A struggle with body is real and valid.
If you’re not counted in the DSM, your struggle is real and valid.
Diagnosis or not, I see you. Your experience is real. Your experience is valid.
You might’ve been rewarded, congratulated, elevated for engagement in disordered behaviors. There’s a good possibility that you never thought a thing of it. Maybe your behaviors fell under the guise of “taking care of yourself.” Maybe your relationship with food became complicated in a response to watching a salacious documentary, or reading something on Dr. Google, or having a conversation with a friend that made you question yourself. Your body.
No matter the reason, your story is valid.
COME AS YOU ARE.
Galmiche M, et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 2019.
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