How do you reinstate your autonomy when an eating disorder has set up shop in your mind and body? How do you reaffirm yourself underneath the guise?
Cycles, rhythms, opposites, exploration, reinstatement of yourself:
Bulimia runs on a motor all its own. It is hard to break out of the cycle because it seems like all you have to do is set it in motion to get it going full-force. How do you reinstate your autonomy once bulimia has been set in motion?
Anorexia feeds off high's of scale readings and body reinforcements. The scale is anorexia's host. What does anorexia need to be its host? The scale. The reinforcement on the body and from others. (It twists any word to sound like reinforcement or justification to keep going). If anorexia is receiving negative reinforcement that implies weight gain, it is a threat to its survival, so, being hard-wired to seek the thrill of positive reinforcement, it forces its victim to do whatever it must do, physically and pyschologically, to align itself with [...]
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Cycles, rhythms, opposites, exploration, reinstatement of yourself:
Bulimia runs on a motor all its own. It is hard to break out of the cycle because it seems like all you have to do is set it in motion to get it going full-force. How do you reinstate your autonomy once bulimia has been set in motion?
Anorexia feeds off high's of scale readings and body reinforcements. The scale is anorexia's host. What does anorexia need to be its host? The scale. The reinforcement on the body and from others. (It twists any word to sound like reinforcement or justification to keep going). If anorexia is receiving negative reinforcement that implies weight gain, it is a threat to its survival, so, being hard-wired to seek the thrill of positive reinforcement, it forces its victim to do whatever it must do, physically and pyschologically, to align itself with [...]