126 Quotes About Eating-disorder

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

We take action when we have the honesty to admit that things are still broken, despite our best efforts otherwise. We take action when we hold ourselves continually open to new techniques, remaining resolutely receptive to new sources of support and new feeds of information. We take action when we are willing, in each new moment, to try again.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

I am my own cannibal.

The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.