I Ruined My Teenage Years with an Eating Disorder
5 min readFeb 9, 2022
Anorexia, orthorexia, phobia-driven disorder, I’ve tasted them all. Here’s what it felt like.
It’s difficult to put the feeling of years of undulating secret mental illness into words, but here’s an attempt.
A teenage girl suffering a life-altering eating disorder is hardly unique. We’ve been portrayed (usually terribly) in film, TV, music, and books for…