Anorexia. Testimonios/Facts

 

La anorexia nerviosa es un trastorno de la conducta alimentaria que supone una pérdida de peso provocada por el propio enfermo que puede conducirle a un estado de inanición, es decir una situación de gran debilidad ocasionada por una ingesta insuficiente de nutrientes esenciales.

La anorexia nerviosa por el contrario, no es un síntoma, sino una enfermedad específica caracterizada por una pérdida autoinducida de peso acompañada por una distorsión de la imagen corporal y puede tener consecuencias muy graves para la salud de quien la sufre.

 

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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by excessive food restriction and fear, irrational fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body self-perception. It typically involves excessive weight loss. Anorexia nervosa usually develops during adolescence and early adulthood. Due to the fear of gaining weight, people with this disorder restrict the amount of food they consume.

 

 

Hemos recopilado algunos testimonios de chicas que padecen o han padecido la enfermedad. Los encontramos en una página de blogs llamada 'Tumblr'. Estos son los que más nos han sorprendido:

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We have recopilated some facts about girls that have passed anorexia or are fighting the illness. We found them in a web site called 'Tumblr'. These are the most surprinsing experiences:

1:

What my eating disorder took away from me:

I lost a lot of friends.

I lost everyone’s trust.

I lost who I am. I feel as if I don’t have an identity besides the Disorder.

I can no longer cheer.

This summer, I was planning on trying out to be an all-star cheerleader.

I have no freedom, I’m watched constantly.

This is all just the after math. It’s also not the physical things that went on with my body and how fucked up it is now.

 

 

2:

The truth is, now I’m under the watchful eye of the system my only three choices are:

• to get better
• be put into a mental hospital
• kill myself

and even though the third one sounds so appealing, I couldn’t do that to the ones I love right now. I don’t want to be put into hospital and even though recovery seems like its going to be horrible, I’m going to try so hard. I’m going to get bigger, but once I’ve gained the weight that’s when the true struggle begins. I’m going to have to face my demons, the reasons why I hate myself so much, then in a few years time I can be happy, a normal girl again. 

 

 

3:

My eating disorder started at age 12. This is me when I was 15. Since age 15, I have been inpatient 3 times, changed high schools twice, been pulled out a dance company, lost not only weight, but lost respect for myself and value for my life. I’m 18 now. I have gained necessary weight back, courage, and a new life. I now attend the college of my dreams, I am healthy enough to exercise without falling, and have friends and a life beyond my eating disorder. Eating Disorders suck. Recovery happens.

 

 4:

‘I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut out my heart or take every pill that was ever made’.