Eating Disorder’s are not a phase

An Eating Disorder is not skipping one meal, thinking you are fat, or wanting to loose a few pounds. An eating disorder is a mental disease, one that controls your life and overpowers everything else you once cared about. It’s so much more than “just not eating to be skinny.” It transforms you into a different person, stealing your personality and happiness, and replacing them with fear, anxiety and loneliness. It doesn’t appear out of nowhere, it grows from so many different sources - stress, depression, control issues, perfectionism, and overworking your body. It drains you mentally and physically, and surely but slowly kills you - literally. You can never fully understand an eating disorder unless you’ve had one yourself, and I hope none of you never have to go through that.