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Underweight and the Desire to Gain Weight
10 min read
Also known as: too thin · malnutrition · cachexia · too light · weight deficit · emaciation · BMI too low · underweight · wasting · thin and weak
Your Body Is Speaking
You eat, but nothing stays. The scales show a number that seems too low to you, and whatever you try — your body seems to refuse to build substance. Perhaps you hear comments: "Eat a bit more." Perhaps you sense yourself that something is missing — not only weight, but density. Presence. The feeling of truly being here, of truly taking up space.
Medicine has many explanations for underweight: metabolic disorders, genetic predisposition, nutrient absorption problems, hormonal imbalances. And all of that can apply. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: why does your body not build substance? What is preventing your system from expanding, from filling, from becoming denser?
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