[Trigger warning for people with eating disorders, obviously.] Kate Donovan, who ordinarily blogs at a few different places around the intertubes, has written an open letter to someone she really cares about, who dismissed her very real anorexia as “playing victim”. You saw me this summer, back home for the worst summer I’ve had. I …
Tag Archive: anorexia
Dec 15 2011
Fasting Away To Nothing for an Imaginary Deity
Anorexia is a serious mental illness that wastes your body as it ravages your self-image. Some people find it a display of piety to simply not eat for forty days, mimicking all the mental illnesses that lead anorexics to the same behaviour. This is disturbing, especially when you can see them waste away and their …










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