A post worth reading and considering. It fits in well with my current study of ‘kindness’. I highly recommend reading this post to all followers of my blog. It helps applying ‘theorietical concepts’ of Christian love to real lilfe problems.
When I talk to people who lived through my anorexia with me, the overwhelming theme is that people didn’t know how they could help me.
They felt their hands were tied. They saw their friend/daughter/sister rapidly wasting away right before their eyes, and they felt helpless.
They didn’t know how to get through to me. They didn’t want to say the wrong thing and trigger a blow up or melt down. And yet they wanted to express their concern.
Meanwhile, I was pushing everyone away, withdrawing from the world, so that I could be alone with my eating disorder, not having to show my friends how sick my mind really was.
And people had their different approaches. Some worked. And some definitely didn’t.
But looking back, I’ve come to realize that above all else, there is one thing that is paramount when it comes to dealing with eating disorder sufferers…
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