tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237076346702327008.post5298596385969323497..comments2023-10-31T15:02:20.764+00:00Comments on Tears Behind The Smile - A Journey Through Therapy: Distortion - The Extent To Which Anorexia LiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237076346702327008.post-74267237660665526042012-11-19T15:44:01.207+00:002012-11-19T15:44:01.207+00:00As a reader, and not an anorexic, it is often diff...As a reader, and not an anorexic, it is often difficult for me to identify with or experience a fact filled explanation of your daily life. Perhaps it is similar to reading a narrative where an abused person tells of their misery - it is tempting to wonder, "...well, why don't you just leave?." Certainly I feel sympathy, but that is a much shallower feeling than empathy or understanding.<br />What you have done in this post is to help me enter into your world, to experience what altered reality does, and how it creates its own world. It has nothing at all to do with changing behavior and making "better" decisions, and everything to do with understanding how perception, illness, and need create their own reality and alter "what is real." <br />Much as Plato's "Analogy of the Cave", distorts our ability to recognize "reality", and act positively, your post helps to give me an inkling as to how your world conspires to keep you in thrall to its malignant falsehoods.<br />Thank you so much. Bobartquest1https://www.blogger.com/profile/12041335296170184698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237076346702327008.post-72427721646573695092012-11-19T02:02:01.126+00:002012-11-19T02:02:01.126+00:00I am so sorry all the pain this disease holds. You...I am so sorry all the pain this disease holds. You are so strong to fight.Wanda's Wingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02823654163692296686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237076346702327008.post-46728992669959447562012-11-18T20:55:03.659+00:002012-11-18T20:55:03.659+00:00HELLO LOVE -I am speechless as I read of the way a...HELLO LOVE -I am speechless as I read of the way anorexia deceives and conjures and demands of its captives. I am so sorry for you in all this. I believe you. And although I am not anorexic, diseases have similar holds - so I promise to find and celebrate my freedoms while being held by MS and you do the same against the forces of your disease, ok?<br />Love to you<br />Gail<br />peace..... Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11337675996256691215noreply@blogger.com