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- [I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living…
- I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week,…
- And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears,…
- And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the…
- My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads,…
- There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.…
- You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it,…
- That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.
- Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you.…
- Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up…
- People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and…
- I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner.…
- There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up.…
- When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I…
- The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.
- 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 one, that it…
- The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.
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