Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it… — Marya Hornbacher Disorder Copy Share Image
“Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a… — Marya Hornbacher Religion Copy Share Image
“But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I’d been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any… — Marya Hornbacher Emptiness Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great… — Marya Hornbacher Crazy Copy Share Image
Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression… — Marya Hornbacher Blurry Copy Share Image
“The last place I want to be is the hospital, but I'm not stupid. I know when it's time to go in.… — Marya Hornbacher Hospital Copy Share Image
“Your ability to withstand pain is your claim to fame. It is ascetic, holy. It is self-control. It is masochism, and masochism… — Marya Hornbacher Masochism Copy Share Image
“Uncle Joe used to spend a fair amount of time in the loony bin. My family wasn't bothered by his regular trips… — Marya Hornbacher Time Copy Share Image
“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is… — Marya Hornbacher Death Copy Share Image
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my… — Marya Hornbacher Bed Copy Share Image
“It's never over. Not really. Not when you stay down there as long as I did, not when you've lived in the… — Marya Hornbacher Elementary school Copy Share Image
“Here's how you make absolutely sure that you'll keep getting crazier by the day: - Ignore everything your psychiatrist tells you. Disregard… — Marya Hornbacher Blood sugar Copy Share Image
• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of… — Marya Hornbacher About yourself Copy Share Image
“Remember, anoretics do eat. We have systems of eating that develop almost unconsciously. By the time we realize we´ve been running our… — Marya Hornbacher Eating Copy Share Image
“Am I ultimately alone? How many of us have asked that question—drunk or sober—when we’ve wondered if there was a God or… — Marya Hornbacher Self Copy Share Image
“My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet… — Marya Hornbacher Books Copy Share Image
“I do doubt she ever felt so cluttered and noisy and jangled that she put her boot through the ice. As soon… — Marya Hornbacher Addiction Copy Share Image
“The bragging was the worst. I hear this in schools all over the country, in cafés and restaurants, in bars, on the… — Marya Hornbacher Starving Copy Share Image
“The night I shaved it off altogether, a Staff named Mark, whose take-no-prisoners approach I respected and feared, pulled me aside, looked… — Marya Hornbacher Hair Said Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your… — Marya Hornbacher Consuming Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in… — Marya Hornbacher Artistic Copy Share Image
“People who’ve Been to Hell and Back develop a certain sort of self-righteousness. There is a tendency to say: I have an… — Marya Hornbacher Mental-disorders Copy Share Image
It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The… — Marya Hornbacher Cures Copy Share Image
Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf,… — Marya Hornbacher Arms Copy Share Image
