I just want to clear up a little myth using my own experience being very poorly with Anorexia. I was thinking about what message I could share in line with Eating Disorder Awareness week, when I remembered a very prominent memory. I learnt a lot of things that day… just because a psychiatrist or a … Continue reading Anorexics DON’T Hate Food…
Your Flicker Counts
In five days so much can happen. Your thoughts can take you up to Mars, looping around the whole planet, then backwards, crashing into aliens, sucking you into a dark, black hole, with only a flicker of a white tit-bit light (not enough to be quite a circle or for an adequate shine coming off … Continue reading Your Flicker Counts
Why Malta Opened my Ketchup Cup…
On this caterpillar winter-turning-spring of a Monday, I can confirm at the typing of my ten fingers… well 6 actually… (I just monitored myself and I use 6, not 10 – anyone who uses their pinkies or their thumbs I’d like to know who you are)… that I AM ALIVE! I came back ALIVE after … Continue reading Why Malta Opened my Ketchup Cup…
Blipping and Bricking It…
So what is a bloody blip anyway? When this word was first said to me after being seduced back to Anorexic or Bulimic behaviour following a long spell of being on a recovery roll… I used to feel like ‘blip’ was me making an error. And having to reboot the system, beginning after all that … Continue reading Blipping and Bricking It…
Captain-Hooked on Sweeteners…
"They’re little pellets of angelic sweetness in comparison to a spoon of scary number-swimming sugar granules”; that’s the eating disorder thought from 10 years ago, shimmying out of the cobwebs in my mind, when rational thought gets hijacked. Sweeteners, for me as an Anorexic, were like winning the lottery… taste the pleasure of a sweetened … Continue reading Captain-Hooked on Sweeteners…