An awareness for anorexia
Hi my loves, As some of you may be aware the 25th February- 3rd March 2019 is Eating Disorder Awareness Week , and as a topic that is very close to home I wanted to raise awareness for it. Shockingly, there is that saying that 1 in 5 people will die from anorexia every year. What I will say is not expert advice, I am not trained in the field, rather I just want to offer help from a personal rather than professional perspective, in an attempt to help change that awful statistic. There are lots of memoirs about anorexia from the first-hand sufferers, or from the parents point of view, but there is never much of a say about it from the siblings point of view, which is why I am writing this. People have a lot of assumptions about anorexia nevosa, which is often due to false miseducation. I too used to be blissfully ignorant about the illness, thinking it was merely a disorder where skeletal girls starved themselves, but from experiencing it as a witness to my sister I could not hav...