Finding Meaning

[cogitoergobum]

I was recently introduced to a new concept: Finding meaning in the experience of an eating disorder. It would never have occured to me that there might be something spiritual or useful beyond the self-knowledge that comes from any trying experience, to me an ED has always been just a disease. What possible meaning could there be? I can understand

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[_commonwealth]

For me, giving a my eating disorder a more philosophical view calms the demons that rage that every part of treatment has been a waste of time, that every relapse is a bigger waste of time, that, eventually, my whole life may fall under the category of "wasted time

[cogitoergobum]

I agree, it often seems like I'd have to be cured of being myself to also be cured of this disease.
I recently read that an ED is like the cough the patient wants to be cured of but the cough is also a sign there's something wrong with the body, it serves a purpose in this sense, even if it's the mind not the body that's wrong. I quite like this view of it.