What I learned about humans from an eating disorder

Not to mention gads of other mental illnesses.

1. Most people aren't happy. Hell, they are lonely, sad, insecure and miserable. Mental illness is everybody else on steroids.
   
2. People want to avoid risk.
   
3. People don't want to be different, wrong, or "out of place."
   
4. People want to know, desperately, who they "really" are.
   
5. People are egoistically focused. Looking outside themselves is HARD. Looking outside, decentering, is SO important to living a wonderful life.
6. The world isn't a happy place; sadness is hyperabundent. The theodicy problem is the single most damaging aspect of religion. Shut up arguments are easy and prevelant and very comforting.