163 Quotes About Anorexia

But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

yet still I crave the sight of my own hypnotic gaze reflecting out at me from the shared mirror of anorexia and bulimia, number to life and reality, existing only in my self-made tortured state

I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don’t allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don’t put them in the vicinity of or let the abuser flirt with them. You keep them the fuck away.

We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf

Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.

I am my own cannibal.

Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.

As those who have recovered from anorexia know, only the test of time proves whether recovery lasts.