Halloween and Eating Disorders

Sarah McMahon
4 min readOct 24, 2021

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.]

“What are you going to be for Halloween?” my friend asked me.

“Gone,” I replied. “I’ll be in Mexico, remember?”

Some people, like my friend, adore Halloween. The dressing up and going out. The parties and candy and elaborate drinks. Halloween hasn’t captured my attention since I was the height of a white picket…

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