When your body is so starved of nutrients, your brain simply cannot function as it was created to. The depth of darkness that is anorexia sucks you in and makes you believe that you absolutely have no choice. It literally changes your brain chemistry. It’s like an addiction. I remember at the beginning of it…
Once I graduated from high school, I had absolutely no idea what to do. All I could think of was finally being free from the hell of social anxiety that it caused me day after day. But then I was expected to turn around and march right back into the 7th circle that was college….
When I was growing up, I was always the little one. Teachers would call me nicknames like Little Bit. At physical fitness tests, my weight was always the lowest. These were things I took note of even as young as 2nd grade. Because people always commented how tiny I was, I began to see it…