#disorder

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image. ↗

— Amy Chua

#chinese #health #mindsets #parenting #eating-disorders

...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#eating-disorders

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#sisters #eating-disorders

Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'. ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#eating-disorders

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#depression #mental #mental-disorder #mental-illness #anxiety

You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it was a teacher or a coach or a friend or a friend's parents. You sought those tiny droplets of love, basking in them when you found them. They sustained you. For all these years, you've lived under the illusion that somehow, you made it because you were tough enough to overpower the abuse, the hatred, the hard knocks of life. But really you made it because love is so powerful that tiny little doses of it are enough to overcome the pain of the worst things life can dish out. Toughness was a faulty coping mechanism you devised to get by. But, in reality, it has been your ability to never give up, to keep seeking love, and your resourcefulness to make that love last long enough to sustain you. That is what has gotten you by. ↗

— Rachel Reiland

#bpd #childhood-trauma #inspirational #love #mental-illness

Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet. And that’s why Mom is always so afraid. If we don’t know what made me sick in the first place, how can anyone guarantee I won’t flip out again? ↗

— Jeannine Garsee

#mental-illness #mental-illness

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#equilibrium #now #opposite #very

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight