Wasted blog 1

"Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying" (2). Marya Hornbacher has been battling eating disorders since the age of nine. She was bulimic at this age and became anorexic at age fifteen. In the past thirteen years her weight ranged from 52-135 pounds. It was a continuous cycle of improving and plummeting. She had countless hours of therapies and spent years going in and out of rehabs. She was also institutionalized. She has so many different disorders now that her eating disorder does not even fit a category. While reading through her files she saw that she was called a "chronic and hopeless case." She believes they are wrong and she has slightly improved. Yet, she does not deny that she has an eating disorder and some major issues. She does not blame her eating disorder on anything. She feels people should not being wondering whether it is neurotic, but what exactly was it that flipped the switch and why are so many people struggling with eating disorders.