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This article by Ragen Chastain makes me so angry every time I read it (not angry at her, but angry about the truth she writes about, that is my truth because she describes my experience). I'm stuck now with physical and mental illness that are at least in several ways linked to a life time of mismanaged self-care, purposeful weight loss …
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This article by Ragen Chastain makes me so angry every time I read it (not angry at her, but angry about the truth she writes about, that is my truth because she describes my experience). I'm stuck now with physical and mental illness that are at least in several ways linked to a life time of mismanaged self-care, purposeful weight loss attempts and shame and self-hatred about my failures that caused me to under and over eat as well as under and over care for myself.