When I don’t eat enough, I get low blood sugar and I find it hard to concentrate and function enough to do anything. And that’s just from skipping a meal, let alone if I hadn’t eaten for days or was subsisting for years on a very small amount of calories. When I see anorexic people in movies or books, they seem to have enough energy to exercise compulsively, go to school or work, and other things. Is it that their eating disorder gives them anxiety and that makes them more energetic? Or does your body just get used to not eating and functions fine after a while?
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It’s like being possessed and controlled by an external force and all the force cares about is calorie calculations, weight, size. It rules everything. The rest of you is on Autopilot zombie mode. Seeing but mentally asleep to the world. Hearing but not listening, perceiving but not feeling or internalizing. Speaking but not actually connecting. Can be high performing in day to day pursuits somehow, by sheer willpower. Often high performance in activities is also branching from the deep need for control which anorexia stems from. but your soul is starved. Only after you recover do you wake up and realize you were partaking in a slow motion suicide.
I believe it’s the most deadly of all mental illnesses so eventually without treatment your body will stop functioning.
Edit: to anyone struggling: recovery is possible and you CAN get yourself back. Can confirm.
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