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Can You Fully Recover From an Eating Disorder?
YES. Yes, you can fully recover from an eating disorder. I feel a lot of dismay when someone says to me; “You know how you can never really recover from an eating disorder?” as if it’s a known fact. I actually heard this statement with surprising frequency, and the person is generally pretty taken aback when I explain that I don’t agree. Learn more about full eating disorder recovery in San Francisco, California with therapist Megan Bruce, LCSW.
What Causes Eating Disorders?
While we think of eating disorders as a modern phenomena– and at the explosive rates we see them today they certainly are– they are also brain based diseases that existed long before anyone considered being thin aspirational. Remember, food scarcity was the problem for most of human existence, so a beautiful person was historically a visibly well fed person.