"• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted……" — Marya Hornbacher
"• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted."
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Marya Hornbacher
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104 Quotes by Marya Hornbacher
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Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and…
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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't…
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In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
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