Anorexia and Me

These are my images from my project book. My project book is exploring Anorexia and Bulimia (Exercise Bulimia) in which I suffered from almost 3 years ago. It was a very traumatic experience for me. I still suffer mentally from this disease every day. It is TORMENTING and OBSESSIVE. It really has a part of my life. I wanted to make this project book to start exploring more ways to explain to people and give them an inside look on really what anorexia and bulimia is like. Alot of people think it is dumb and not a disease. They think you can turn it around at the flip of a coin. It's just like alcoholism. Its an ADDICTION. It really takes over your everyday life. It also consumes you and holds you in a emotional prison. Constant thoughts, ALL NEGATIVE, run through your head. Its a non stop voice telling you horrible things. Its like your almost possessed. With this book, I show the obsessiveness that goes through my head and the images of how we really are when we think we are fat. WE DO NOT SEE REALITY. We can see it on everyone else except ourselves. It's called body dismorphia. The images I chose, I wanted to be shocking, because people think we chose to be anorexic. We don't! Anorexia is a disease I did not chose to get nor did any other female. Its like cancer. You don't get to pick if you get it or not most the time, unless you smoke lol. The pictures are supposed to wake my viewers up to that this is a serious disease. It will kill you. I would have died within a month if I would have kept it up. These images are also theraputic for me in the sense that it reminds me of where I was and that I really don't want to go back to that hell or looking like that. I thank God I am not in that horrible place anymore. I was a SKELETON with SKIN, as the one girl is above.