Do we affirm that the anorexic who “feels fat” is actually fat?

When I was younger, I had a pretty severe eating disorder. I felt fat. I saw fat when I looked in the mirror. I was sure I was fat, and I behaved accordingly.
And yet…I didn’t really *feel* fat, did I? Because I wasn’t fat. I’ve never been fat. I can’t possibly know what fat feels like. I can imagine it, I can empathize, I can hold delusions in my head so strongly, to the point of hurting myself, and even still—I don’t know what it feels like, because I’ve never been that thing…

And had I been able to seek professional help, this is what any professional worth his salt would’ve said to me—along with affirming to me that I wasn’t fat, and that the problem was in my own mind, not in my body.

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