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In addition to women with eating disorders being the same type of women who tend to join sororities, women with eating disorders often, as far as i have seen (although I am the farthest thing from a medical professional) play off of each other and strengthen each other's disorders.
One girl I went to both HS and college with confided in me that she was a bulimic. All through high school, she and her high school best friend would binge and purge together and support each other's problems. When she isn't around her HS best friend, her bulimia, while still present, isn't as bad as it used to be.
There's cases of this in the house too - the same group of girls who eat ONLY salads and go running together every morning at 8 AM. It's like they've bonded over their issues with food and weight - which, IMHO, might make those girls with marginal eating disorders a little worse off if they have someone else to emulate.
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