“Guys just don’t get it,” he said, fidgeting in his chair. “When I tell a guy friend about my eating disorder they say, ‘Come on, dude. That’s a girl thing.’ They don’t understand, so I don’t tell them.” The person speaking was one of the two men present at the support group last Wednesday night, … Continue reading »
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore For me, the sea is my eating disorder, treatment is my vessel, and the opposite shore is a recovered mind. I’ve been struggling a lot recently, treading water and getting tired. It’s a riptide, this disordered thinking; it sneaks … Continue reading »
Day 4 - Have you harmed anyone (besides yourself) with your addiction/disorder? If so, how? What have you done (or plan on) to make amends? I’ve hurt a lot of people with my eating disorder, but my family was hit the hardest. When it had begun around my freshman or sophomore year of high school, they … Continue reading »
Very late at night & in the morning light, nobody knows me at all Nobody knows me, nobody knows me, nobody knows me at all.. I’m really struggling right now, feeling real low with my mood as well as my body image (chicken and the egg, not sure which came first) and on top of … Continue reading »
