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A Spiritual Disease

It is not a stretch to say that each person in the United States knows someone who is addicted to one substance or another be it drugs, food, or alcohol. A common misperception is that these addictions are related to body image. A woman dying from anorexia is not starving herself because she thinks she is fat. She feels so out of control in her life that the only area she can control is what she puts in her mouth and thus becomes obsessed. She gains a sense power by overcoming her body's basic needs for survival and measures her level of success based on her level of thinness. If she were to become thin enough, she would no longer need to control her food intake and would lose her only source of power, therefore she must always believe she is too fat. This is not an issue of body image. This is a spiritual affliction. Like eating disorders, alcoholism is not an issue of body image. Instead, it is a spiritual disease. According to The Big Book of......

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