The tie that binds
When you’ve been through something difficult, it can help to have a friend who gets where you’re coming from. That’s why one of my friends, who has struggled with an eating disorder, likes talking with fellow teens in the eating disorder community.
“I relate to them better than I do my other friends,” she told me. “Because they actually understand my pain, and I understand theirs.”
It isn’t the shared experience of pain that’s allowed me to feel comforted and to find healing.
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