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“Stop telling yourself that one day it might be enough, that one day you will learn to survive by gnawing on a corner of life, curled up, and growling in the corner of your cage. I do not want to live in a cage. If this illness feels right now like a cage, please try to hear me: it isn’t locked. It has been open all along. You are free to go. The particulars are meaningless. The numbers, the sizes, the idiotic weights, the banal, boring litany we chant to ourselves that is supposed to give the precise measure of our bodies and therefore of our beings, how good, how well we fit into the little box we have assigned ourselves - the difference between my experience and that of someone else is negligible. We are all in a corner of hell. And we stay there because we believe it is all there is for us, and it is all we deserve. An eating disorder is not something you have to prove to warrant concern, to warrant care. You warrant care. You deserve respect. Demand it of yourself. The End.”

— Marya Hornbacher (via caffeineremedies)

The cage feels locked