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AnorexiaAnorexia

Magazines and television
Model pretty girls
Their bodies perfect and so thin
Their hair all up in curls

I want to feel my skin, my bone
Changing into something beautiful
But sometimes I think looking like them
May take a miracle

I'll push around the corn and beans
All around my plate
Maybe I can convince them all
That I really ate.

I can see my bones now
Showing through my skin
Which has grown so very pale
Which has become so thin.

All I'll drink is water
And eat only cotton balls
To make my stomach think I'm full
Perhaps I'll make it after all

People seem to notice
And ask if I've lost weight

AnOreXiACradling you,
Limp in my arms,
Bones, and yellow skin,
Poking in to me,
I beg of you,
Eat.

The sight of food,
You vomit up blood,
All over me.
I do not care,
I will not leave.
Your hairs falling out,
Stringy and weak,
I hold it in my fingers,
Shaking,
Crying with you.

I wont let you die,
You can do this no more,
I look in those eyes,
So gray, loss of life,
You bruise so easily,
As i carry you to bathe,
Its like carrying a dead baby,
And laying it in its grave,
But you are not yet dead,
Food you shall eat,
Once so beautiful,
Weight will not be your defeat.

Anorexia may own you,
Your mind your heart your soul,
But

Counting to Insanity

Ten... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two... one.

I opened my eyes to face my new home. The room was small, but just big enough for two girls. I looked over to see the other half of the room perfect, as if it were meant to be put in a magazine. She was OCD I could tell. A lot of us were. Counting steps, fixing pictures on the wall, organizing, perfection. That's one more thing we could control, since we couldn't control our eating anymore.

Ten... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two... one.

I should have fixed it myself. I could have done it on my own. I don't need these people and their

To Be AnorexicYou wouldn’t understand. To compare yourself with others who are skinnier or fatter constantly; to feel the shame at knowing you’re larger and the satisfaction at knowing you’re thinner; to deprive yourself of the nourishment your body craves; to acknowledge you control your body’s cravings; to find pleasure in that thought; to dread stepping on the scale yet have a compulsion to do so; to cry if weight has increased or failed to change; to smile when the number goes down; to find beauty in the peeking bones beneath your pale skin; to admire the sunken, hollow eyes; to envy a corpse; to strive for perfection; to never know

My Anorexic Angel

My baby is an Anorexic Angel,
She won't eat,
She swears she's fat,
Even though she's so tiny,
I try not to pressure her into eating,
But she's just flirting with death.
My Anorexic Angel,
She's a beautiful person inside and out,
I hope she one day listens to my pleas,
And I hope that one day is soon.
Her stomach has to be growling in pain and agony,
She doesn't drink anything to give her body nurishment,
She doesn't eat anything to help keep that tiny tummy of hers at ease.
You can tell she's dramatically loosing weight,
Her clothing is becoming so loose.
That shirt used to show off her figure so well,
Now it's so loose, she's

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you know you're anorexic whenby ~lonegunga1

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Visual & Found Poetry

I know firsthand that eating disorders are serious, and this piece is not meant to offend anyone in any way. It is simply meant to be a glimpse into the mind of an anorexic. A scary place indeed. There are a million more of these "you know you're..."s out there, but these are the ones I understood most personally.

[edit] "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we will never cease to be amused." It's not funny, not really, but it is. I'm not dissing anorexics. I am one.

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!BrookeGaunt Dec 25, 2012

So true. I see myself in this...

~slowtraincoming Sep 20, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

this is sad

~Tauxique Sep 13, 2012

_{I relate to this, sorry to be a grammar Nazi, but you've spelt Holocaust wrong. (The effing irony).
The people flaming this obviously don't understand what anorexia is because they don't have it.}

~ConvictionbyLarm Aug 28, 2012 Student General Artist

I've read most of your comments… and that's really scary… this is more than a dependence is an execration

~RouKon13 Aug 27, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I don't see what's so wrong about being skinny we all have goals mine just happens to include my own body.

=AngelheartTheWarrior Jan 11, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Well, actually there is nothing wrong with being skinny but anorexic is different. Anorexic people usually always see themselves as fat/overweight and eventually eat so little that they develop serious health issues because they end up starving themselves.

~RouKon13 Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I still don't see the problem it's their body to do as they wish with, so long as their not minor that is they are free to do as they please. Even if it's darker than others it's still their body.

=AngelheartTheWarrior Jan 12, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Yes, but it causes health issues. People have died from anorexia because they always think they are fat. They become severly underweight and usually get very sick or die.

~RouKon13 Jan 13, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's their choice and their is really no way to help them unless they want to stop so why bother with all these pics telling them to stop.

=RihannasLover Apr 4, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

It's not a choice, it's a disorder. No one chooses to have Anorexia or Bulimia. It's a living God-damn Hell everyday with either one, or both of them. They're not telling anyone to stop, they even said that. Eating Disorders are no where near as casual as you seem to think they are. It's not a choice, we have no control over it. It controls you until it kills you, and you will die unless someone forces you into recovery.

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