May 2012
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is it normal to pace your room and talk to yourself about suicide?
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i’m hungry but i’m afraid to eat because then i’ll have energy to be slightly manic.
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this cut is dedicated to my dbt instructor, jerry.
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How can you deny us the right to kill ourselves when you’ve never actually felt suicidal yourself? When you’re feeling that way, suicide is an all encompassing right, an absolute truth, and an unquestionable should. Who are you to take that away from us? Everyone has their lot in life… Some people write literature, some practice medicine, some make war… Why can’t I...
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it just feels too good.
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today i binged and purged and cut and burned. i should probably be taking my prozac but it’s just so hard to care.
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when your slow heartbeat shudders through your whole body.
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body checking this weekend has become a sort of ocd type of comforting mechanism. the hollow pit in your hungry stomach, the tapping of collarbones…
i guess when life is so devoid of comfort you find unique ways of attaining it, even if they are self destructive.
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my abysmal diet yesterday
muesli
soymilk latte
whiskey
blondie bar
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I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active...
– Hermann Hesse (via hermannhesse)
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i know i shouldn’t be, but i’m so excited to restrict tomorrow.
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I feel like I’m empty, composed of spiderwebs of disorders creating a shadow of a person.
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Orange for lunch. Soymilk latte for dinner. Goodbye meal plan.
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i did art this weekend without feeling suicidal for the first time in many many years.
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How can self destruction be so quiet?
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i was asked to leave iop. they said it wasn’t the right time to do it because i needed to find my motivation to recover.
i’m such a fuck up.
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i ended ten tallies behind yesterday because i felt like i didn’t deserve to eat as much since i didn’t go to the gym.
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it was depressing cleaning my whole room with my mom and finding lots of old, blood-stained kleenexes in my drawers. not to mention the gun target from the firing range.
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I have so little left of myself that I want to keep what I can, even if it’s fundamentally detrimental. Yet I hate myself and want to get rid of the horrible scraps that are left.
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i tried to make up missed tallies from my meal plan tonight, but i just couldn’t think of a reason for why i deserved to eat.
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maybe i have to accept meaningfulness on a smaller scale.
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I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior,...
– Jack Kornfield, “The Question”
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chicago
well i’m off to chicago with my parents for the weekend. they invited me because they didn’t want to leave me home alone to my own devices. eating out for all meals every day and lots of treats are going to be a big challenge. the goal i set in iop is to order what i actually want off each menu, not what the eating disorder wants or necessarily what the meal plan dictates.
my mom...
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why is it so hard to stop starving myself?
April 2012
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if i’m going to live, can’t i at least be great and perfect?
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The artist is not, as ordinary people think, a gay sort of person who flings off...
– Hermann Hesse in Gertrude (1910)
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my life feels completely worthless and meaningless.
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i don’t know why i thought watching ‘requiem for a dream’ would be a good idea. it’s one thing to live through suicidal thoughts, depression, an eating disorder, the psych ward, and residential treatment… to experience it first hand and have it be your norm. it’s another thing to view it externally and really see how scary and serious it all is.
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my mind keeps telling me i’m doing the right thing by not eating- that i should be proud.
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therapy for me is like a wet dream. it’s someone listening to me talk about myself for an hour.
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i want to hold onto depression and the eating disorder so tight because i still don’t have a life. i don’t have a job, friends, interests or hobbies. it helps fill the void because i’m still not a whole person.
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It’s still hard to think that -I- have an eating disorder. I go to IOP and do group check in and say these things out loud that sound so normal in my head. But then the leader says that it sounds like my “eating disorder is really loud” and the other group members say they feel the same way. And I think, “How is it that these people with eating disorders, these people who...
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In moments of temptation or indecision - for example, when the man who has...
– Sartre, 1943 (via emmabutton)
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i am often surprised by the disordered thoughts that come out of my mouth.
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i used to think that it was a choice to not eat and that i was in control, but i am questioning that now.
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i’m barely restricting and i’m already lightheaded.