You Deserve Better
This is one of the many ways that eating disorders manipulate the humans who live with them. Suggestion that because one is still functioning, and perhaps, from the outside, thriving, that things are f-i-n-e, fine.
I promise you that things can be easier than this. That the amount of effort that is required to live with an eating disorder, while also being a human on the planet, is endless. I also promise that the recovery effort will require a ton of energy. And persistence and patience and self-compassion and community and grit. And, often, this still requires less energy than living in two separate worlds.
This is not diagnostically specific.
This is not dependent on body size.
This is not racially or ethnically or religiously or gender or age-specific.
This message applies to anyone, and everyone.
You deserve better.
And that you are worth the effort.
