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[–] Shoulder_Devil 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Anorexia is so god damn misunderstood. They'll never understand the fear of simply brushing your teeth because of the possibility of swallowing a miniscule of toothpaste that MAY have a fraction of a calorie. Only allowing yourself to take tiny sips of water because you can feel your stomach expanding if you took that gulp that you so desperately want and need. Constantly checking your bones to make sure any fat didn't magically show up after eating that single clementine.

The public needs a PSA on wtf anorexia really is. It's not just girls/boys refusing to eat because they want to be vain and skinny.

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[–] FloraOfTheMoon 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

God, I remember when I had to be hospitalized for Anorexia II was at a point where I was so paranoid that the water they gave me was somehow laced with calories, and when I realized that made absolutely no fucking sense was the moment I started taking recovery seriously. It is such a more complex disease than just "i'm fat lol", and I despise how simplistic most of the media and these cows online see it as that. To them, having a somewhat negative thought about oneself as they eat (but not enough to actually not eat, after all they deserve it for dieting so hard this week teehee!) three doughnuts for breakfast with a triple mocha latte and bacon is somehow equivalent to having a disease who's primary physical characteristic is starving yourself to death. It's fucking laughable.

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[–] Shoulder_Devil 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It took hospitalization to snap me out of my crazed illusion. I was always questioning the food given to me. I couldn't eat a cup of broccoli if I didn't prepare it myself because I was so paranoid that someone laced it with extra calories. It's almost a survival instinct to not eat, while at the same time killing yourself to do it.

There's no rational explanation to it and fats will NEVER understand, and insulting hearing them wish for such an infliction