Anorexia Recovery Quotes

“Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Recovery is hard. Staying in your disorder is Hell.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Getting through the day seems like a good place to start. I don't have to be strong for ever, just the next twenty- four hours. Even less than that.”
― Juno Dawson, Stay Another Day

“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the fact that she felt safe in it, and cared for.
'It was the first time I'd been in an environment where I felt comfortabe with all the people around me. I felt "I can be here and I can talk to anybody" and that was something that had been missing from my life'.”
― Carol Lee, To Die For

“Your ideal weight is a collection of experiences, feelings, ambitions, and mental processes. It's a space that is fluid, ever-changing, and abstract. There is no numerical relation to what is best. Instead, you must live your life free from numerical restraints. An ideal weight is not one you can predict, choose, or write down as a digit. Rather, it's a place you reach by thinking very little about your body at all. You reach it without realizing it, You reach it without micromanaging it, You reach it without judgement. And you reach it seemingly by accident while living your life to its fullest every day.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I certainly couldn't admit that I swallowed laxatives like candy, just to feel something move inside me, feeling control slip through my fingers with every dose.”
― Diana Kouprina, Borderline: A Poetic Memoir