Comparing disorders, depression/anorexia/cutting
"Because it lacks "bleeding wounds," Merkin feels, her illness doesn't seem real — even in comparison with other mental illnesses"
"They were clearly and poignantly victims of a culture that said you were too fat if you weren't too thin and had taken this message to heart. No one could blame them for their condition or view it as a moral failure, which was what I suspected even the nurses of doing about us depressed patients. In the eyes of the world, they were suffering from a disease, and we were suffering from being intractably and disconsolately - and some might say self-indulgently - ourselves."
YET, in popular media, "people with eating disorders are blamed for their illness, when it is even seen as an illness. Eating disorders are generally seen as some sort of failure—if not the sufferer, then clearly her parents."
So yeah, we're talking an article that "shows how deep the stigma still goes, and how difficult it is for those stigmatized to advocate for themselves"
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