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How can the cognitive perspective be used to explain irrational thoughts experienced by people suffereing with eating disorders?

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Well, cognitive is finding the thought process behind it. As someone who is fighting an eating disorder, I can say that my thought process is a need to control, a need to be thin, and an overall need for perfection. Not necessarily for anyone else, but for me.

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