439 Quotes About Eating-disorders

Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.

What started as a longing to be loved and seen for my physical beauty digressed into the warped belief that the illness itself was what drew the attention I so craved. I towed the line between longing for perfection and longing for pity. Using my body as a signaling flag, oscillating between peacocking in times where I felt beautiful, and waving distress calls in the depths of my sickness.I never used my words, and I didn’t know how to. I used my body.

If you hold on to any part of your eating disorder, you are always one step away from a relapse.

A really important and underestimated part of recovery is allowing yourself to fall apart without rushing in to fix it.

Recovery is hard. Staying in your disorder is Hell.

She eats this exact breakfast regularly. Lately she has started to eat it slowly, in lavish sugary mouthfuls that congeal around her teeth. The more slowly she eats, and the more consideration she gives to the composition of her food, the less hungry she feels. She won't eat again until eight or nine in the evening.

When peace walked through my doorMy inner child sighedThat kind of sigh that saysYou’re here…at lastCopyright: JL Keez: 2015

Everyone kept asking me if I wanted to die,Well, no. No I didn't want to die.But no one ever asked me if I wanted to live.

Sick equaled thin and thin got me noticed. Being noticed made me feel loved.