In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank. .Marya Hornbacher
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The life of a person with anorexia is quite sad. People often talk about how their life revolves around food and how much they hate themselves when in reality, their lives revolve around the way in which they look and the fact that they lack in love and human contact. They feel powerless and can’t move forward in life. Living without the ability to form relationships leads to a lot of loneliness and despair.
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