I just.. I just want to get
something out there. You don’t just wake up one morning and
all of a sudden hate everything about yourself. You don’t
just wake up and think “Oh, I’m going to have an
eating disorder now.” No, no no no no! It doesn’t
work that way! I personally I have anorexia. I hate a lot of
things about myself, and I just can’t stand some people
anymore. You don’t get a break from an eating disorder, it
just doesn’t work that way! It’s always there,
it’s always haunting you. There’s always that little
voice in your head telling you you’re not good enough,
you’re not skinny enough, you’re to fat, you’re
worthless, you’re nothing, you don’t deserve
anything. And it slowly starts to kill you. It makes you hate
yourself so much. To the point, where I personally, I hurt
myself. I have scars on my arms and legs to show it. I felt so
worthless, it felt like it was the only pain I could control
because all of the pain inside just hurt to much. And it kills me
when people try to make excuses for eating disorders. You
can’t. There’s no “excuse” for it. It
gets to the point where you just can’t take it anymore. You
look in the mirror and all you can see is all the things you hate
about yourself. All you can see is fat, or ugly, and your weight,
well your weight it the only thing about all of that you can
actually control. So that’s what you do. You control it.
No, not because we want to be “pretty” or
“beautiful” we know that it doesn’t work, but
because it’s something that could make us feel better about
ourselves. You can tell us we’re skinny, and beautiful, and
gorgeous all day long. It will make us smile, say thank you, all
that normal stuff. But at the end of the night, behind closed
doors, we’ll look in the mirror, and think how all those
things are just lies. An eating disorder, it’s not only a
physical thing; it’s a mental thing as well. That number on
the scale, it control’s the good moods, and the bad moods.
It’s what determines whether it will be a good or bad day.
It controls everything, that one simple number. So just remember,
if nothing else, we don’t WANT to have an eating disorder,
but it just gets to the point, where we just can’t let it
go. Boy and girls, men and women, gay, straight, bi, lesbian,
transgender; any of us could suffer from one, and you could never
even notice it about them, until it’s already controlling
their mind.