A CONVERSATION WITH AN EATING DISORDER
Have you ever spent time around someone who is dying? If you have, you know the distinct smell. If you haven’t, I assure you it’s a smell you’ll never forget.
I wouldn’t describe it as a gross, or even a rotten smell.
It’s certainly not the kind of scent that is so pungent it burns your nostrils
or startles you. No, to the contrary, it’s subtle, almost slightly sweet and
slightly bitter at the same time.
It’s the smell of death and that scent used to linger
around me all the time. At fist I tried to ignore it, then I tried to cover it,
but after six months it hovered over me at all times. I couldn’t escape it. The
smell of impending doom was coming from inside me and it became suffocating.
