Anorexia - A Deadly Fashion

It seems there is a certain cache associated with being psychologically impaired. Unlike a physical deformity, psychological shortcomings seem rather to enhance our credibility than interfere with it, and a certain admiration loiters, unspoken, for those whose daily life is tarred with madness. Or perhaps this occurs only when the psychological intersects neatly with the physical, when illness creates a physical form that is simply at the height of fashion.

Whoever said that big is beautiful was, it seems, speaking wistfully, if today's trends are anything to go by. Anorexia used to be a celebrity fad, like drug use, or alcoholism, but more and more, it has drifted into the mainstream of the entertainment world, creating a world of female icons who are shrinking by the year.

I have suffered with anorexia for many years, and despite the glamorous look it might produce, it remains an illness, and one that is far from pretty. I'm sure that there exist women who are naturally that slender, who eat as they wish and remain that tiny, but I am not one of them, and I know that I am not alone.