439 Quotes About Eating-disorders

Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

It is called a disorder for a reason. Because it makes no rational sense. It’s completely counterproductive and, the saddest part, it is also dissatisfying and damaging.

I think we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves every now and then. Otherwise, you’ll take yourself so seriously, nothing will ever get through.

The very ironic, almost laughable thing about all of this, is that all the punishment and pain you’re inflicting on yourself is an infinitely harder way to accomplish your end goal of looking and feeling good.

I found ways to hide in plain sight, to keep feeding a hunger that could never be satisfied - the hunger to stop hurting.

Mirror, Mirror on the wall,who's the skinniest of them all?""Not you, Amir, not you.

I looked at my reflection in the glass door at the entrance of the house. For the millionth time, I saw something entirely different from what I desperately wished to see. But to be fair, what I wished to see was a replica of the skeletons I had come to worship. I often wondered as to why my eyes couldn't see what the world around me could. Why did my eyes see differently than others?

Every day, I saw this new distorted reflection of myself, and everyday, I despised it a little more than the day before. It was uncanny and delusional, my reflection, and I felt this urge to change everything about myself. 'What is happening to me', was a question that remained unanswered for a great amount of time because I was as unaware about it as every other person around me.

Days and weeks passed by with changes in seasons and the phases of the moon. But the one thing that remained unmoved and constant was something I told myself every single day, "Amira Kashyap, you are fat!