What I mean is that I feel there is a misunderstanding as to what an eating disorder actually is.  Some people, unfortunately, have the belief that a person with some sort of mental illness can just snap out of it– think happy thoughts, etc.. but that’s just not how it works. When you have a mental illness, you don’t control your thoughts, they control you.

I wanted to specifically target eating disordered behavior because of how uncommonly it is talked about in our society.  Everyone that I have shared this piece with so far knows someone that was bulimic, anorexia, etc.. it is not well understood at all, and I think that there is simply a lack of perspective on it.

Our perspective is our story. By changing our perspective, we also change our story.