thereoncewasaskinnygirl: I really hate when eating disorder campaigns have pictures like this. That’s nothing like what an eating disorder is like. It makes it seems so neat and organized, like “I’m going to sit at this table with an empty white plate and not eat because I’m sad.” Really? I mean firstly when I was in the depths of my eating disorder I didn’t think I was “starving” myself. I don’t think that I was doing it because I had other emotional issues. I was completely convinced that I just wanted to be “skinny” and that it was perfectly normal to eat as little and to work out as much as I did. If I saw this picture during my eating disorder, I would have thought it was stupid. That no one “understood” what I was going through. It’s not like I would have thought “OMG that’s so right, maybe I should just eat now.” This picture also fails to show any of the internal battle that goes behind eating disorders. It doesn’t show the sadness, the hurt, the pain, the absolute emotional torture that it takes for someone to deny the most basic human function: eating. You can’t even see her face. It doesn’t show the weight loss, hurt palpitations, osteoporosis  hair loss, dry skin, cracked nails, lanugo, mood swings, fatigue, or tooth decay. You want to get someone to recover? Just be there for them. Let them know that they aren’t alone. Don’t lecture them or try to pretend you understand what they are going through. It’s not even remotely as simple as “starving away your problems.”

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thereoncewasaskinnygirl:

I really hate when eating disorder campaigns have pictures like this. That’s nothing like what an eating disorder is like. It makes it seems so neat and organized, like “I’m going to sit at this table with an empty white plate and not eat because I’m sad.” Really?

I mean firstly when I was in the depths of my eating disorder I didn’t think I was “starving” myself. I don’t think that I was doing it because I had other emotional issues. I was completely convinced that I just wanted to be “skinny” and that it was perfectly normal to eat as little and to work out as much as I did. If I saw this picture during my eating disorder, I would have thought it was stupid. That no one “understood” what I was going through. It’s not like I would have thought “OMG that’s so right, maybe I should just eat now.”

This picture also fails to show any of the internal battle that goes behind eating disorders. It doesn’t show the sadness, the hurt, the pain, the absolute emotional torture that it takes for someone to deny the most basic human function: eating. You can’t even see her face. It doesn’t show the weight loss, hurt palpitations, osteoporosis  hair loss, dry skin, cracked nails, lanugo, mood swings, fatigue, or tooth decay.

You want to get someone to recover? Just be there for them. Let them know that they aren’t alone. Don’t lecture them or try to pretend you understand what they are going through. It’s not even remotely as simple as “starving away your problems.”

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