Lanugo and Laxatives – The Dark Side of a Glamorized Illness Eating Disorders are among the most fatal and devastating mental illnesses a person could be unlucky enough to ever develop. A devastating illness with countless mental and physical consequences. Eating disorders, of any form, are Hell on Earth – not just for sufferers, but the loved ones of anyone suffering with them. With UK eating disorder charity “Beat” estimating that around 1.6 million people in the UK are sufferers of some form of eating disorder, and figures believed to be much higher (as so many people live undiagnosed) I find myself upset and frustrated that I only learned more than what the media portrayed about eating disorders after developing an eating disorder myself. Of a range of people I spoke to on an eating disorder ‘support site’, that has been a great help for me through my bouts of relapse and recovery, our only real similarity was that we were all sufferers of some sort of eating diso...
A trophied heart. N G tubing. O steoporosis. R acing heart, fifth day fasting. E xercise purging. X -Rays and brittle bones, 15 years old. I nside me, lives a disease, A nd I am trying to starve it out of me. N othing ever seems little enough, E verything is too much. R acing heart, sixth day fasting. V icious cycles of never ending misery, O ver-exercise, just to eat it all back again. S till starving, I don't know why anymore. A nd someday, I will make it out alive.