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List of the Nine Truths About Eating Disorders
- Truth 1: Many people with eating disorders look healthy, yet may be extremely ill.
- Truth 2: Families are not to blame, and can be the patients’ and providers’ best allies in treatment.
- Truth 3: An eating disorder diagnosis is a health crisis that disrupts personal and family functioning.
- Truth 4: Eating disorders are not choices, but serious biologically influenced illnesses.
- Truth 5: Eating disorders affect people of all genders, ages, races, ethnicities, body shapes and weights, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic statuses.
- Truth 6: Eating disorders carry an increased risk for both suicide and medical complications.
- Truth 7: Genes and environment play an important role in the development of eating disorders.
- Truth 8: Genes alone do not predict who will develop eating disorders.
- Truth 9: Full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Early detection and intervention are important.
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Updated 2022-11-29
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Clinical Practice of Psychology
Feeding and Eating Disorders