Peer Contagion: Why I Wasn’t the Only ED Survivor From My High School
How Many People Have an Eating Disorder
7 min readDec 9, 2022
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Eating Disorders Run in Packs: A Deep Dive into Peer Contagion Among Eating Disorder Patients
Off the top of my head, I can name three people from high school who had eating disorders. All girls and they all ran in my circle. Those were just the obvious ones, who knows how many more of my peers struggled with it.