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Well eating is not optional, LLM use certainly is. If the risk is that you might jump into a psychosis and hurt yourself and others, it's probably not worth it.

From what I have seen, people who get through eating disorders describe it as having a healthier relationship with food.

Getting to that point requires doing substantial work.

Alcohol is not a necessity, just to be fair. In that sense alcoholism is not a simple eating disorder, it is a drug addiction.