”Stigma affects us all! All the time! We cannot avoid it. It has a direct connection to our appearance, to our perceptions about our character and to the groups we want to belong to. So we learn to accept all these feelings of being worthless and not ’fitting in’. To help a person with obesity, the first thing is to help her (or him) regain her self-confidence. Otherwise, all the years of suffering under stigma and feeling worthless because of her weight will come in the way of her recovery.” – Christina Fleetwood
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