Status Updates From The Monster Within

Telling a teenager she has to relive being molested at 4 before she can heal is just...abhorrent. You don't have to re-immerse yourself in pain in order to heal. That's gross.

I knew it, I told you this guy was taking a bizarre approach to things: UPDATE Abuse of Trust - D Magazine https://share.google/mX9PsUZFbpY9Pzyzk

"I said, “If he were twenty-eight, I’d have a diamond ring on my finger.” - this is a creepy thing to say about a kid, especially one that was inpatient with you...

"But I knew she’d been afraid to tell me for fear I would feel sorry for myself,..." - I mean...sounds like she's got you well-pegged. Feeling sorry for yourself is probably your greatest skill, at this juncture.

Unbelievable. Just blames everyone else for everything. You smoked weed so I have to binge and purge is one of the dumbest, most self-indulgent, "rationalizations" I have ever heard.

The self-righteous hypocrisy is painful to witness.

Being instructed by a counselor to write a "how to court a man" essay as part of treatment is wild as hell. Sure wish they named this facility and this counselor.

The nerve of this woman to be lashing out at her mother for being ill when she's literally in a mental health ward with an eating disorder and some other obvious mental issues. I am having a hard time having sympathy for this author, and I would have hated to be in the same ED unit as her.

These group therapy sessions are some of the weirdest I've ever read about...

Why are you going to a family dinner with a 17yo?

I've got to be honest...the way she describes the actions of the therapist and aides makes them sound like they should potentially be mental patients as well.

Every other page is some sort of emotional tantrum, there's no way the ED is her main psychological problem.

This woman is emotionally foreclosed at the age of 13, I swear. I hope she matures by the end of all this therapy.

Oh, sure, Satan gave you bulimia. How convenient.