#disorders

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

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

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#anxiety #because #become #develop #disorders

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84) ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44) ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial. I just don’t get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all of a sudden you just aren’t. I will never forget that day...the day where I became numb. ↗

— Piper Caleb

#diary #eating-disorders #new-adult #psychology #love

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

We don’t know who is healthy and who is not just by looking at their body shape. ↗

— Cheryl-Ann Webster

#body-image #diet-industry #diets #eating-disorders #self-esteem