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anyone help

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Everyone is telling me i am tiny I am 5"6 and I weigh 103 pounds. I doesn't sound big but it looks big on me. I feel huge I want it all to stop I want to be a skinny person a pretty skinny person. I really don't know what to do. I feel like the fattest person in the world but everyone tells me i m not. are they trying to make me happy by lying? I dont understand I look fat!
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Its part of the disease thats not you talking its the disease its making you see yourself differently than you really are. Your freinds are right you are tiny. You are way underweight, but I know you can't see it. But thats not you seeing yourself correctly. You are tiny!
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diddo to what christine said.

also, the whole out of whack/out of reality body image is actually caused by chemical imbalances in our brains (because we haven't been getting all the nutrients to continue every function our body should be doing)

-Debbie
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