Some days are better than others when dealing with my daughter's illness. In the United States millions of people go hungry, yet other who need to eat, refuse to do so. Its confusing to me why. The mind is a powerful thing and how it effects all that way. I have an eating disorder myself, only mine goes the other direction, so why should I be surprised that my daughter would suffer from one.
In my case and with many who suffer from depression, eating is a way to make you feel good for a moment. It is a comfort. With my daughter, its a control thing, she controlled her situation, so she starved herself. She doesn't want to go back to where she was, her confidence is getting better and she is trying very hard to eat more each day.
I was told to take each day "One Day At A Time." I do but it isn't easy when you are afraid for your child. Sometimes you get angry, sometimes you get complacent , sometimes you get frustrated but most of the time, you get weepy. Another thing I was told about these eating disorders like Anorexia is that it is a "Lifestyle." Lifestyles can be bad or good.
Its this that is frustrating, of course a healthy lifestyle is "Good" when you eat right and exercise. Basically things that improve the measure of life for you and others around you. A "Bad" lifestyle of course is a style that threaten's one's life. Honestly, there are many definitions of what a "Lifestyle" is in our politically correct society now a days, some good as an improvement, others bad as a destruction. Well, whatever, a person should love others and themselves for a healthy emotional life regardless of shape and size, the rest comes later. When a lifestyle threaten's ones life, then you know that there is always room for improvement. A change has to be made for the good.
Its a hard road but its a possible one. I have learned that all these years of my life and the lives around me, especially my children's. Life should be celebrated no matter who we are. Be happy with yourself.
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