its National Eating Disorders Awareness Week!

Though I have never suffered from an eating disorder myself, I feel close to the subject because I have a couple friends who suffer from anorexia and from what I can tell, it's very similar to being addicted and in this case to not eating. No wonder the survival stats for eating disorders is not very good. Neither are the stats, as I've stated before, very good for drug addiction. In both cases you feel your whole life depends on a habit that is actually killing you slowly (sometimes quickly). It takes an incredible change in a person to stop such a destructive habit that they use to deal with everything in life. But it is possible and I'm living proof of that now. And so is one of my friends who became severely anorexic but is now on the road to recovery. Thank God she looks so much healthier now and even enjoys ice cream again. I also knew a man who had bulimia and he recovered from that too. I don't know his story as well but I know he has greatly reduced his many destructive habits. But alas, not everyone recovers. I've talked about L here before and honestly, I don't know if she's alive or dead now. She doesn't answer her phone and I don't know the exact apartment number she lives at so I can't barge in and see if she's ok. Last I saw her is over a year ago now and she was restricting her eating to only 300 calories a day and she was bone skinny and always kept on a jacket to hide her thinness. She's a mother to the most well-behaved 10 year old boy I ever met but she needed his arm to get up and down stairs. She required the highest level of psychiatric care in the mental hospital in the past because she got so skinny she had near heart failure and needed a wheelchair. I believe they had to force feed her to save her life. I'm afraid she might be in such a situation again but I guess I'll never know... I pray that God intervenes in her life. She's had such hard days...