Eating Disorder Quotations | Page 2

You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must eat. You don’t really entertain the notion of going back. You, with some startling new level of clarity, realize that going back would be far worse than simply being as you are. This is obvious to anyone without an eating disorder. This is not always obvious to you.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.