from left to right;
I am afraid to hold my boyfriend’s hand.
My friend’s parents sent her away.
I found death threats in my locker.
I submitted to electroshock therapy.
I lost half my friends after coming out.
My grandmother sends me hate mail.
My school won’t let me take my date to prom.
I am not here anymore.
My dad tried to beat it out of me.
No one is proud of me.
This showed up on my blog again. Forever reblog.
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HAPPY NATIONAL EATING DISORDER AWARENESS WEEK, EVERYONE! :)
- Approximately 1 in 200 people have either anorexia or bulimia. 10% of these cases are males.
- Eating disorders are DISEASES not DIETS.
- Anorexia will kill as many as 1 in 5 of its victims.
- Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.
- Per sufferer, only $1.50 is spent annually on eating disorder research efforts, compared to the $170 spent per sufferer on mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s.
- 50% of American’s personally know somebody who has struggled with an eating disorder.
- Eating disorders don’t discriminate. They affect people of all races, religions, ages,cultures, and economic classes.
- Only 30% of those diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia will ever fully recover. It is a life-long battle for most.
- Only about 1/3 of those with even the most severe of eating disorders are actuallyunderweight. People with bulimia are often a healthy weight and can even be overweight.
- No, they can’t “just eat.”
- At their roots, eating disorders are never about weight or food. Binging, purging, restricting, etc. are merely symptoms of the underlying disease.
- Infertility; osteoporosis; organ failure; heart failure; hair loss; dry, grey/yellow skin; brain damage; seizures; tooth decay and loss; esophageal or gastric rupture; laxative dependency; loss of bowel control; vision/hearing loss; malnutrition; extreme dehydration; black outs and fainting; paralysis; coma; and death… These are just a few of the (sometimes irreversible) physical consequences of anorexia and bulimia. Still glamorous?
- People seem to think that anorexia takes such great will power. They are wrong. Self-starvation does not take will power, it takes self-hatred.
- For more information, visit nationaleatingdisorders.org.
I don’t wanna be afraid
I wanna wake up feeling beautiful..today
And know that I’m okay
Cause everyone’s perfect in unusual ways
So you see, I just wanna believe in me
This was the dress and event and everything that revealed some of her secrets. she is one of the strongest people out there and I am so happy and proud to be a hard core lovatic.
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