The Voice of Anorexia
Although I've never had Anorexia, I've dealt with a couple of things that are quite like it: BDD (body dysmorphic disorder) and anger. BDD encourages a severely negative obsession with appearance, and the voice of anger sounds a lot like the voice of Anorexia. It's demanding, controlling, manipulative, and encourages us to harm ourselves or others. Like many Anorexia victims, I knew that harboring my disorders were bad, but the (false) sense of security and the dominance that it had over me made it difficult to let it go.
The voice of Anorexia may seem like a friend, guiding you to happiness and "perfection", but this is only a lie used to gain dominance and control over you. This voice may try to tempt you with false promises, but it knows that it's only objective is to take your life. This voice will do and say just about anything to keep you from true happiness, either by punishing you or coaxing you back to it when you try to get away. Why? Because when you close your mind to this voice, it becomes nothing. Without you to listen to it, this voice is meaningless and full of empty promises. This voice needs you to survive, but you don't need it at all.
Anorexia isn't a friend, it's an abuser. It isolates you from your friends and family and makes you feel worthless. When you cry, it only urges you to continue to do the very things that are making you so upset. It tries to impose controlling ideas into your head, like making you think that you'll become overweight from eating a small snack. How can you start to turn a deaf ear to this voice? Please visit the Conscious and Subconscious Clutter page for help.
Anorexia's control over you ends here. It's time for you to experience true happiness, and to open your eyes to life and see what it has to offer. Take your life back, and no longer allow the voice of Anorexia to deprive you and prevent you from the life you deserve.
The voice of Anorexia may seem like a friend, guiding you to happiness and "perfection", but this is only a lie used to gain dominance and control over you. This voice may try to tempt you with false promises, but it knows that it's only objective is to take your life. This voice will do and say just about anything to keep you from true happiness, either by punishing you or coaxing you back to it when you try to get away. Why? Because when you close your mind to this voice, it becomes nothing. Without you to listen to it, this voice is meaningless and full of empty promises. This voice needs you to survive, but you don't need it at all.
Anorexia isn't a friend, it's an abuser. It isolates you from your friends and family and makes you feel worthless. When you cry, it only urges you to continue to do the very things that are making you so upset. It tries to impose controlling ideas into your head, like making you think that you'll become overweight from eating a small snack. How can you start to turn a deaf ear to this voice? Please visit the Conscious and Subconscious Clutter page for help.
Anorexia's control over you ends here. It's time for you to experience true happiness, and to open your eyes to life and see what it has to offer. Take your life back, and no longer allow the voice of Anorexia to deprive you and prevent you from the life you deserve.
Our Disorders Don't Define Us
Unfortunately, there are so many people with emotional disorders. Be it Anorexia, Body Dysmorphia, anxiety, anger, depression, and so on. When these issues have been in our lives for a certain amount of time, we begin to feel like they're apart of us. We start to think that our lives will always revolve around them, and that we won't have a happy future with it there. Yet at the same time, we feel so comfortable with it that we can't quite imagine life without it. It allows us to flee from what we fear instead of confronting it. Some of us even think that our disorders make us "special", "unique" or “strong”, but we have to realize that we were already special, unique, amazing, strong and beautiful without our labels.
Why should we throw away our dreams or push our true selves away for a disorder? Why should we settle for less? Don’t accept defeat, and don’t hand your life over to something that wants to destroy it. Let’s stop partnering up with our disorders and addictions, and become partners with our minds, bodies, and hearts instead.
Why should we throw away our dreams or push our true selves away for a disorder? Why should we settle for less? Don’t accept defeat, and don’t hand your life over to something that wants to destroy it. Let’s stop partnering up with our disorders and addictions, and become partners with our minds, bodies, and hearts instead.