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[–]OrneryStruggle 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nice dig at people with serious illnesses there.

[–]here4thedip 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. Obviously there are people with serious, severe chronic illness. However, there are many, many people on IG that are 100% faking or severely overexagerating/self-diagnosing there symptoms for social and sometimes financial capital. If you head on over to r/illnessfakers there are many posts exploring these issues in detail, and many posters are from members of the chronically ill and medical communities.

[–]OrneryStruggle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are illness fakers. There are all sorts of fakers of all sorts of things. I notice you just put chronic illness in particular in scare quotes.

Anyway. Yes, obesity IS often caused by actual chronic illness.