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1 " Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey—the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love. "
― Shannon Kopp , Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life
2 " To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength. It is not a sign of weakness at all. "
― Nigel Owens
3 " It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you. I can't really understand addictions to drugs or alcohol. Things that control you. But an eating disorder is an addiction you control. Wait, is that paradoxical? I prefer to believe not. "
― Ellen Hopkins , Identical
4 " Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age. "
― Jenni Schaefer , Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
5 " The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible. "
― Lynn Crilly
