Dear Eating Disorder

Gabija Jonelytė
Nov 7 · 6 min read

Dear Eating Disorder,

Would you mind if I call you a monster? I hope, you would not, because that’s how I feel when I hear someone talking out loud about diets, calories, numbers, and curves, that’s how I feel about you, about our story. Do you remember, we have met less or more, I think maybe a decade ago? We’ve met when I was 11, typically skinny and bony, pretty unhappy…

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