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Somerset and Wessex Eating Disorders Association
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Anna

My life seems dark and there’s no way out,
Anna’s got hold and wont let me go
She’s there all the time constantly yelling at me
“ You don’t need food, your way too fat
You can’t eat that, you don’t want that”
Her voice is so powering that I cant overcome
She’s taken over my life and I can’t escape.
Food constantly fills my thoughts,
Dreading the next meal I’m expected to eat
No one knows of Anna and how powerful she is
My body has become hers, I have no choice but to lead the life she wants
I’ve become scared of food,
Just that one tiny mouthful makes my body more disgusting
I cannot bear eating all of this food,
I am ashamed of myself, Anna is too
We can both see it so why cant you?
I know what I see when I look at myself,
FAT, FAT, FAT

The thought of standing on the scales makes my body go weak,
If I fail again, what will Anna do?
Nothing I do is ever good enough for her
I seem to fail in all that I do.
I take a blade to my wrist to release the pain
Even that isn’t good enough until the blood pours out
I know people are ashamed of me and the things that I do,
But it’s my way of coping the only way that helps
I feel so worthless, just what is the point,
I feel myself falling deeper and deeper with no way out.
I don’t want to go back to how I used to be,
Just the thought of being like that is enough to make me cringe
I know I’m unhappy now but I felt far worse then
The unbearable thought of going back to all that,
Why cant people see that Anna is right?
Eating all this food will just make me FATTER!


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