Erin Brooke

meladoodle: why does this dolphin look like it knows something...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:02:04 -0400

meladoodle:

why does this dolphin look like it knows something i don’t

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Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:41 -0400

scvlptures: depression is when you don’t really care about anything anxiety is when you care too...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:17 -0400

scvlptures:

depression is when you don’t really care about anything

anxiety is when you care too much about everything

and having both is just like what

You want to be apart of my life but whenever I try to talk about something other than my day at...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:49:03 -0400

You want to be apart of my life but whenever I try to talk about something other than my day at school your response is stop

Like what do you want from me

"I tried bulimia once There’s nothing quite as lovely as a thoughtful message from someone who..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:22:19 -0400

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I tried bulimia once

There’s nothing quite as lovely as a thoughtful message from someone who understands:
“Sorry you’re going through this, I tried bulimia once and it sucked.”
Bulimia does suck. The sky is also blue, and the world round.
But darling, you did not try bulimia once.
Forgive me if I’m callous, but I can’t dig up much sympathy for someone who believes gagging once and deciding it’s icky is ”bulimia”. Sure, it’s never a good thing to try to make yourself sick, unless you’ve just been poisoned. And thinking purging is a viable option isn’t exactly healthy.
But sticking your fingers down your throat and coughing and then going OH MY GOD EW is not bulimia. Fasting for a day and then “fainting” in the hallway is not anorexia. And “getting so desperate I seriously considered anorexia or bulimia” isn’t an eating disorder.
Bulimia is a speeding train with no brakes, bingeing and purging and bingeing and purging no matter how broke you are or how disgusting the food is or what you should be doing. It’s gorging until you can barely stand, puking until you bleed, and the city could burn to the ground and when it was over you’d still be standing in the ashes, bingeing and purging.
Anorexia is a wall of blue-gray ice, a miswired translation code that turns appetite into disgust, a terror you don’t understand, a fear so real you can see it and hear it and kiss it goodnight, an illogical logic that rewrites everything and youknow you need to eat and maybe you even reallywant to eat but you just can’t because if you dideverything would fall apart.
Desperation is digging through the garbage for nothing-something-anything to stuff in your face because you have to binge and purge right now. Desperation is standing frozen in the aisle of the grocery store for minutes/hours/years, and then buying the same calorie-free crap you always buy because you can’t eat it if it’s not safe. Desperation is swallowing laxatives like normal people swallow candy, just because you have to be empty.
And you can’t ”consider anorexia and bulimia”, as though they were for sale at the pharmacy between agoraphobia and cyclothymia.
You didn’t “try bulimia once”.
It’s not a diet, and it’s not a choice.

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- http://catherine-of-siena.com/2012/03/31/i-tried-bulimia-once/ (via kristensrecovery)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:50:04 -0400

Use what?

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:49:35 -0400

ummmmmmm instuments is what i suppose you could call them

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:43:43 -0400

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:42:59 -0400

pajamaswag: I will never get over how badly she won that one.

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:42:55 -0400

pajamaswag:

I will never get over how badly she won that one.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:42:23 -0400

toadlyoko: So in middle school we weren’t allowed to have any drinks aside from water but I kept...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:42:02 -0400

toadlyoko:

So in middle school we weren’t allowed to have any drinks aside from water but I kept sprite or the clear kool aid in a water bottle and felt like I was someone who made moonshine during the prohibition era.

dersely: momlonde: do you ever see a photograph of someone really attractive from like the 1800s...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:58 -0400

dersely:

momlonde:

do you ever see a photograph of someone really attractive from like the 1800s and you suddenly get pissed because they’ve been dead for like 200 years and you probably don’t have a chance with them

“probably”

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:40 -0400

beautilation: “I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:36:57 -0400

beautilation:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

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Tue, 21 May 2013 18:19:56 -0400