Yes! Exactly, keep talking to the eating disorder like the nagging and annoying bully that it is. Keep externalizing it.

This was a quote from Ben Smith, a contestant on The Bachelorette season 16. He shared his eating disorder journey on the show.

With so much deception online, how impactful is the current social media landscape on users and their body image and relationship to themselves? Who does it affect and how can we work towards body appreciation rather than body dissatisfaction?

This was said after the patient was able to have bread, white bread, for the first time in a long time. They certainly enjoyed it, but not without guilt afterwards at first.