What do people need to stop romanticizing?

The worst part is that you know what you're doing, but there comes a point when you're so chained by it that it's too late to just stop and it's out of your control entirely.

I spent about an hour this morning with a pair of tweezers removing the seeds from a strawberry to make sure I was getting the 'real weight'. I know consciously that this is not a healthy thought process and i'm told constantly that I should want to get better, but I don't. I try to lie to myself and others that I do but I can't find any part of me who actually wants to change because i'm so trapped by the psychological side of things.

Yesterday, my mum told me a story about a girl who died on a feeding tube in hospital because she was so sick from anorexia and all I took from it was 'i'm fat because i'm not in hospital'.

It scares me now when I see people romanticising eating disorders as 'beautiful' or 'brave'. I just want to scream at them to stop while they still can because you can't just turn back after you go so far.

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