Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really think guilt is at the heart of [bulimia]," says ECHO counselor Andrea Schwartz...
...protect the identity of the counselors and the students they help, the names of all ECHO staff quoted in this article have been changed...
Located in the F-entry of Quincy House, the room is the home of the Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO). There are two phones in the room. The 11 counselors who staff the hotline Sunday through Thursday use those phones to respond to calls from people concerned about eating problems. People who call to talk about the disorders, to ask questions about body images, to sob while the counselors listen...
...part of their training outline, ECHO counselors receive psychological profiles of bulimics that outline the importance of cultural factors, such as the notions that "beating the system is good" and "major transgressions require major atonement." For these women, bulimia is a way to repent for what they believe to be their sins, for them to accept roles as penitents for success and the ways in which the think they fall short of society's expectations...
Schwartz says that if she and ECHO could do anything they wanted in order to educate the public, she would hold a workshop that everyone on campus would be required to attend. They would discuss what in society encourages women to loathe themselves and to express the self-loathing by damaging their own, healthy bodies...