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My mother and I have just done an interview for the Daily Mail on my anorexia and her role during my illness and my recovery. The journalist was especially interested in what my mother said to me on the phone one day just before she and her partner moved house: ‘You are welcome at our new house, but your anorexia isn't.' Read More
An important distinction indeed
Thank you for clarifying the Mail's mistake, because I think it's a significant one.
Making a decision
I was also anorexic, and also at one point "just decided" to get better. I knew that if I didn't I would die, and at that time I also decided I didn't want to die. I was a teenager, and it sounds so depressing now to write that, 15 years later. I was shocked and surprised to read today in Sue Blackmore's Guardian article that only 40% of anorexics fully recover.
And yes, big (deliberate?) mistake by the Mail.
I appreciate your comment
It's lovely to hear from someone else who has made this seemingly miraculous decision; so many people seem to think it too remarkable to quite be true, and it's very comforting, somehow, to know that you have managed it too, and that it worked for you in the long run. Sometimes everything simply becomes too much, and one needs to change something, and one therefore can.
Don't know about the mistake being deliberate: probably just lack of communication between journalist and whoever writes the stand-first. But I suppose it does sound more dramatic (and a 'tougher' sort of 'love'), if far less interesting once one thinks about it, than the accurate version printed in the article proper.
Thank you again, fellow decision-maker!
Emily
I myself have not had
I myself have not had anorexic tendencies however I do have quite a few friends who do. I'm a teenager, but I really enjoy studying psychology and I recently realized that in my support of my friends in regard to anorexia it is an important distinction to make that anorexia is not a part who they are. It is not to be claimed.
I appreciate both you and your mom for recognizing that distinction and correcting the grave mistake made by Daily Mail.
Spread the love =)
Thanks
It's often hard to keep the person and the anorexia separate: the longer the illness lasts, the more one forgets what they were like before, and the more all their character does become submerged by their weakness, secretiveness, evasiveness, hunger, and self-absorption. One has to keep believing - even when they themselves no longer do - that this is not who they are.
Good luck in supporting your friends, even helping persuade them that they can be a person again, instead of just an anorexic.
Emily
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It is a crucial distiction you have managed to pick out!
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