Thin.
Eating disorders are secretly addictions in disguise.
"ARE YOU FOR REAL?"
This is a poem about people who fake mental illness (factitious disorder). I am entering it for a slam poetry competition and just wanted some feedback! i know it's long, but ple...
Mental Health Awareness Month
Personification of Mental Illnesses
MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING
What they don't tell you about eating disorders.
What they don't tell you about healing.
Quick note: this work contains content about eating disorders, vomiting, self hatred, and other body issues. ...
I want to love myself I want to feel comfortable in my skin
The goal is to be skinny Or at least that’s what the world will have you believe
I don’t want to be skinny Even if that means I won’t be “pretty”
Not my poem**
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/941038/anorexia-and-anxiety/
After the pack leaves for college, Liam starts to put pressure on himself to be the "alpha" of the town. Theo and his friends watch as this pulls him down a slippery slope. After a life-altering event...
Six months after the Battle of Beacon Hills, supernatural occurrences begin again. Two dimensions start to merge.
I am the skeleton in the room, inside the dark black corner. Come stare at me with wide, white eyes, and witness my life's horror.
There was a time I didn’t enjoy food, I ate because I had to. I didn’t feast on foods I wanted or enjoyed, because in my mind, that one square/slice/sweet would instantly make me “fat”.
The reality i...
Thin.
Eating disorders are secretly addictions in disguise.
"ARE YOU FOR REAL?"
This is a poem about people who fake mental illness (factitious disorder). I am entering it for a slam poetry competition and just wanted some feedback! i know it's long, but ple...
Mental Health Awareness Month
Personification of Mental Illnesses
MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING
What they don't tell you about eating disorders.
What they don't tell you about healing.
Quick note: this work contains content about eating disorders, vomiting, self hatred, and other body issues. ...
I want to love myself I want to feel comfortable in my skin
The goal is to be skinny Or at least that’s what the world will have you believe
I don’t want to be skinny Even if that means I won’t be “pretty”
Not my poem**
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/941038/anorexia-and-anxiety/
After the pack leaves for college, Liam starts to put pressure on himself to be the "alpha" of the town. Theo and his friends watch as this pulls him down a slippery slope. After a life-altering event...
Six months after the Battle of Beacon Hills, supernatural occurrences begin again. Two dimensions start to merge.
I am the skeleton in the room, inside the dark black corner. Come stare at me with wide, white eyes, and witness my life's horror.
There was a time I didn’t enjoy food, I ate because I had to. I didn’t feast on foods I wanted or enjoyed, because in my mind, that one square/slice/sweet would instantly make me “fat”.
The reality i...