20. apr. 2016

You'e not a sketch.



I don't think we are actually disgusted by our bodies. We are disgusted by what someone did to it.


“...she was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.” 
― Margaret AtwoodThe Edible Woman

“The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.” 
― Emma Woolf


For some women, eating disorders are related to the loss of control over their bodies during the sexual abuse and serve as a means of feeling in control of their bodies now. Eating disorders can also be indicative of the developmental stage and age at which the sexual abuse began. Women with anorexia and bulimia report that they were sexually abused either at the age of puberty or during puberty, when their bodies were beginning to develop and they felt a great deal of body shame from the abuse. By contrast, women with compulsive eating report that the sexual abuse occurred before the age of puberty; they used food for comfort.” 
― Karen A. DuncanHealing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women




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