#disorders

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#space

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living? ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#depression #mood-disorders #care

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow. ↗

— Alyssa Reyans

#bipolar-disorder #depression #mental-illness #mood-disorders #mental-illness

Anorexia is not an illness of the body; it is an illness of the mind. ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#eating-disorders

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. ↗

— Laura Wilkinson

#disorders #eating #get #hard #i

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#dieting #disorders #eating #emphasis #know

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#address #ask #children #consequences #discuss

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. ↗

— Robert Graves

#chosen #common #complete #cure #disorders

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty