Reply To: The Psychology Behind Purging

[DeeAnn Hopings]

To be honest, in 17 years, which is essentially from the beginning, I have never purged. Too cheap, perhaps. However, I’ve always thought that the main reason that folks purge is the idea of “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”. It is an attempt at removing the temptation, only it doesn’t work. From everything that I’ve seen, the tendency is that when people try not to dress for a time, the feeling comes back stronger than before…