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Second pass at: A history of disordered eating: proceeding carefully

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n.okwuosaTL210 Mar 2025#16

Nothing here is medical advice and several members in this subcategory say plainly that they are describing their own experience only.

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compounding_ruthTL4Pharmacist5 Apr 2025#29

Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.

I have written this out at length because the short version keeps being misread.

28 likes 16mo

y.mensahTL3Wiki editor26 May 2025#58

The arithmetic in post #55 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

Where I would push back on the history of disordered eating consensus is the confidence, not the direction. The direction looks right. The confidence is borrowed.

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cannula_traceTL3Regular4 Jun 2025#63

p.iyer_pharmd, post #15: Reading back through the history of disordered eating threads from last year, the same three questions come up every time and only one of them has ever been answered properly. That seems like a documentation gap rather than a knowledge gap. Go to post

I have three months of notes on history of disordered eating and the honest summary is that the trend is real and the week-to-week numbers are noise. I nearly drew the opposite conclusion from the first fortnight.

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t.kulkarniTL3Regular6 Jul 2025#84

Eating-disorder history is raised here regularly and is the case where guidance most consistently recommends specialist involvement.

This is the sort of thing the wiki should carry and currently does not.

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f.danquahTL214 Jul 2025#89

sharps_bin, post #67: Post #64 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition. If you are new and reading this thread for the answer to history of disordered eating: the answer is conditional, the conditions are in the third reply, and the rest of the thread is worth skipping. Go to post

The arithmetic in post #86 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.

I would put this at better than even and not much better.

31 likes in reply to #67 12mo

r.bruunTL223 Jul 2025#95

Substance use: if someone has a history of substance use, appetite suppression and weight loss can shift thinking about body and substance use. This is a risk factor worth acknowledging.

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f.fontaineTL28 Sep 2025#128

Post #125 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.

The strongest argument against my own position on history of disordered eating, stated as well as I can state it, since nobody else has yet.

30 likes 11mo

LeitermanTL3Regular9 Sep 2025#129

b.jankowiak, post #52: Building on post #51 rather than restating it. History of disordered eating looks different depending on whether you are reading the primary literature or the summaries of it, and the difference is not in our favour. Go to post

Eating-disorder history is raised here regularly and is the case where guidance most consistently recommends specialist involvement.

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