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Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
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Michelle Stewart89 ratings, 3.81 average rating, 9 reviews
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“If you don't fall in that category [those with an active eating disorder], you might not truly understand how numbers work on the disordered brain. They read like challenges, or some kind of heavenly ordained permission to drop down to a lower weight than whatever plateau you may be hovering on.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
“Well-meaning people in my life have suggested I should buck up and fight it. To them I gently say, I have been fighting my body for decades now and I am beyond tired.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
“I was hungry to be thin, rail-thin, skeletal. Bones clicking on bones, sinew on sinew.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
“I resist change of all kinds. I crave it constantly, but when it comes down to it, I am usually either too afraid or too resigned to leap.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
“How do I feel? I feel like saying nothing but “I am sorry” and “I love you”—it is all that really seems necessary.
How do I feel? I feel like throwing away anything that would remind you of me, any trace that I was here. I feel like crawling under the sheets with my books around me on the bed, and just staying there.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
How do I feel? I feel like throwing away anything that would remind you of me, any trace that I was here. I feel like crawling under the sheets with my books around me on the bed, and just staying there.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
“There are times I think there are things I just shouldn't share, as it doesn't exactly cast me in a favourable light. But it is all part of the human experience, so onward I go.”
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
― Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
