“He couldn't stand me being sick. Nobody can. They only want to hear that you're healing, you're in recovery, taking it one day at a time. If you're locked into sick, you should stop wasting their time and just get dead.”
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“Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.”
“The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero,…”
“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.”
“Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”