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| Superchick – Courage Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think that this is very ignorant of you. That's just my opinion, but it IS a fact that eating disorders are a PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER. We don't just wake up one day and say "oh ok I'm gonna be anorexic" or "I'm gonna be bulimic". People that truly have eating disorders don't just do it for attention. It's a psychological thing. You know it's wrong and shameful, but you can't stop. It's an addiction. And most of the time it isn't just to lose weight. It's a way to control some aspect of your life because most of the time our lives are falling apart at the seams. Telling someone with an eating disorder to just eat is like telling someone with depression to just be happy or telling someone addicted to cigarettes to stop smoking. It takes a long recovery process that is absolutely terrifying to us. It is an addiciton as well as a psychological disorder that has the highest rates of death due to a mental disorder. Your comment offended me, tbh. "That's what REAL people do." So having a psychological/mental disorder doesn't make me a real person...okay. |
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| Casting Crowns – Does Anybody Hear Her Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song is pretty much exactly like me when I was a teenager, from 14 to about 17 (I'm 20 now). I went through some serious depression, bulimia, OCD, and self harm, and even some dark suicidal thoughts. I was very involved in my youth group and did a great job of hiding my inner pain and covering my cuts, or cutting in places no one would see. I was a good actress and had everyone fooled into thinking I was fine. Church was the one place I could be myself, though, alone with Jesus. But, as the song says, judgement looms under every steeple. I started crying in church once during prayer hour during the day and a bunch of people that didn't even know me started scoffing and looking at me like I was weird. So I started going to the 24 hour adoration chapel my church has; many times, I'd sneak out at 1 or 2 in the morning just to go over there and be alone and be able to break down and cry. One night, I thought I was alone, and I was wearing a short sleeved shirt because it was hot that night and I figured no one would be there so I didn't have to hide my cuts. But then my youth minister Ashley came in behind me and saw and heard me crying. In a way, she saved my life because she helped me get help. Basically, I think the whole song is about how many people look to the church to provide a place of no judgement but that is exactly what happens. People at churches claim to be nonjudgemental and holy but in reality very few actually are. |
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