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Let me summarize how life has become even more difficult in the past 24 hours. First of all, Supermum lost her job yesterday. Just like that, my parents are both unemployed and we are uninsured come May. How can hard-working, honest, creative, energetic and thoughtful people be dismissed? What kind of mother-fucking, conservative, gun-toting jerks dismiss my mom, the most tolerant, easy-going person I know? I can’t wrap my mind around it, so I’ll leave it at that for now.
Secondly, I really like my nutritionist, but even I cannot fully appreciate one’s expertise when one tells me that I cannot consume starches of any sort for a month. After that month of letting my stomach and other organs heal, I can try and see how much starch I can tolerate.
This is all too intense to dwell on right now, so I’m signing off. I usually wouldn’t say something like this: but keep us in your thoughts.

Anorexia: Wanting To Be Invisible But Seen

When I started to restrict, I wanted to be seen by the world. I wanted others to tell me how proud they were of my willpower. I wanted them to comment on the fabulousness of sitting in a restaurant during Christmas time and watching everybody else enjoy the Christmas Dinner while I was staring at …

ANOREXIA NERVOSA: FEEDING TUBE DIET…LETS GO CRAZY.

Ten years ago, I was in the ICU at a major medical center in Colorado. I can’t breathe and my hands are pinned down. One nurse is holding me down and the other two are trying to shove an NG tube down my nose. The pain is incredible, my throat is repelling it and my …

Anorexia Means Trouble

As a kid, I hated to be in trouble. I remember how often I started to cry whenever I was caught doing something I knew I shouldn’t have done. Like the time that my girlfriends and I were caught in the school’s bathroom during a breakfast break by our principal who was anything but pleasant …

Anorexia Is NOT Logical

Logical: following or able to follow the rules of logic in which ideas or facts are based on other true ideas or facts. There are many “facts” your anorexia is telling you throughout its lifetime. The fact that you are unworthy of love. The fact that you are fat even if you’re close to death. …

Anorexia And Recovery Slogans

Anorexia destroys. It doesn’t help you. It doesn’t heal you. It doesn’t make anything better. It only destroys. It hurts. It finds its way into your life and holds you imprisoned, making you believe all kinds of lies and misrepresentations. It destroys your body, your relationships, your health and your life. There is nothing, nothing, good …

Anorexia Among Pregnant Women (Pregorexia) Rises In Canada

Poedy Pencil Princess via Etsy.com Anorexia, a mental illness which is the abnormal obsession of staying thin and not gaining weight is deadly. Psychological and social factors can both contribute to the eating disorder. Another documented eating disorder which has been mentioned on the Victorian – Recovery blog has received the attention of the health …

And Every Man, Too?

You might think that in writing this blog, I think that only women are afflicted with eating disorders. Not so. The reality is that men, too, suffer from eating disorder and body image problems, and they seem to be closing the gap in the gender discrepancy we previously knew – or thought we knew. A …

An Eating Disorders Effect On Siblings

Via etsy.com The family dynamics prior to the onset of an eating disorders, create a unique dynamic for families dealing with one. The family dynamics prior to the onset of the eating disorder may shape the individual responses among family members yet the overall response remains remarkably similar from family to family. The mental and …

America The Beautiful 2

Have you seen it? I went to the Hollywood premiere a couple of weeks ago, and Darryl Roberts, the filmmaker, was there, along with several members of the cast, and all were available for a Q & A! It isn’t ground-breaking, but it does bring more, much-needed attention to eating disorders and our national focus …

Alexa Chung On Body Image

Alexa Chung is known for her fashion choices, praised by fashionistas for her innovative style. She started out in the modelling industry and turned to presenting, being on Channel 4’s Popworld. I’ve been pretty impartial about Alexa Chung throughout her career, not being hugely into her style, although she seems funny and likeable, but I’ve …

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