Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Anorexia

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Frail, boney, and hardly able to move, my junior year of high school was dominated by an eating disorder, trapping me in a prison of self-destruction. Though not considered a part of my identity, my struggle with Anorexia has made an immense imprint on my life and who I am as a person. Not only did the illness itself change the way I carried myself, but the process of recovery and healing contributed to monumental personal growth in my character as well as my general outlook on life. While entangled in the sinister disorder, my physical, as well as mental, state was bleak and rapidly deteriorating. I could not think, walk, speak, exist without using every bit of energy within me, which was not very much. I began isolating myself from those

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