Story archives - tag: "anorexia"

still starving

After being anorexic for 13 years I went to the bookstore to look for a book on recovery, but when I saw the weight loss book someone had put in the section thinking they were funny, I skipped dinner instead.

tags: anorexia [add]

2008-09-12 14:31:34 / Rating: 407.75 /

CW

The other day, my mother, who knows of my eating disorder of seven years, informed me that I wasn't skinny.

tags: anorexia eating disorder parents [add]

2008-06-11 16:26:34 / Rating: 197 /

KelleyK

Fully knowing I've been battling anorexia/bulimia for 10 years now, my roommate (and best female friend) doesn't feel the need to refrain from telling me how skinny and perfect she views herself to be.

tags: anorexia roommate [add]

2008-04-30 14:41:03 / Rating: 124.5 /

normal

There is a very big difference between being anorexic and focusing on something so much that you forget to eat.

tags: anorexia not forgetting focus [add]

2008-02-29 12:59:19 / Rating: 202.5 /

Laura

She starved herself, and hurt herself, and now she's dead and all I can think is, "She never even got to have a first real kiss".

tags: anorexia death kiss seventeen [add]

2008-02-22 14:59:09 / Rating: 259 /

DeiLeited

I used to be able to play four hours straight of badminton, but one Sunday, when I could barely keep my eyes open, I realised that I needed to start eating again.

tags: anorexia control sports [add]

2008-01-14 17:39:16 / Rating: 182.25 /

Heather

I look at the food longingly as my stomach grumbles, knowing that he's controlled me for so long that the only thing I have control over in my life is the food I put into my mouth.

tags: hunger control abuse anorexia love [add]

2007-11-12 22:52:38 / Rating: 218.75 /

Alice

His mum was so restrictive with money it made me anorexic.

tags: couple anorexia mum money [add]

2006-10-11 11:24:52 / Rating: 172.5 /