"Support groups" for eating disorders
Well the fact that there are these support systems is the very issue that scares me. This isn’t good support. This is incredibly unhealthy support. I mean, if you have an eating disorder, listening to people tell you that it’s okay to be starving yourself is not going to help. I don’t really personally know, but I feel like if someone had an ed, they wouldn’t want to hear how wrong they were… that wouldn’t help. But friends, family, doctors, etc. can support them with love and positive support. The fact that there are online communities where people are hearing that it’s ok for them to hurt their bodies and themselves is incredibly scary. Now they have somewhere to turn without anyone else’s knowledge (I mean anyone else in their circle of friends, etc.), to get encouragement to continue hurting themselves.
All that was kind of redundant. Sorry.
— Devika Bagchi