Excessive resistance to behavior, as seen in eating disorders, can be a maladaptive brain function that threatens health or life. — Whalespan
Excessive resistance to behavior, as seen in eating disorders, can be a maladaptive brain function that threatens health or life.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“hence the example I gave earlier about eating disorders where an apparently hardwired function of our brain to be able to generate some sort of reward for resisting a given Behavior goes too far and then can actually threaten one's own health or even life”