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‘Getting skinnier meant getting fitter to me’: More men seeking help for eating disorders
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Psychologists say men typically struggle to open up about their condition, but the tide is slowly turning with more awareness.
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SINGAPORE – Eating disorders have an aesthetic, and it is decidedly female. Waif-thin girls with matchstick legs and thigh gaps on social media sites such as Tumblr. Beautiful dancers, models and actresses splayed on the toilet floor in movies and TV shows, throwing up their dinners.
But the female face of this condition obscures another vulnerable group: young men.
