Eating disorders serve many functions in the lives of trauma survivors. Seven women, adult survivors of traumatic experiences, describe the challenges and benefits of therapy that addresses trauma and eating disorders in an integrated way.
"What my eating disorder did for me, which is why I held onto it for so many years, was that I really feel like it just numbed all the feelings that I was experiencing inside¡I kept them internally and just let them build up. The purging for me was a huge release of those emotions. It was almost like a drug." - former patient
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