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People become addicts in the process of trying to feel whole instead of fragmented, connected to something instead of lost and alienated. They try to calm the torment of shame and anxiety and fill the void of inner emptiness.
— Joyce Houser
Posted on November 28, 2012 (♥ 32)
+ addiction + shame + eating disorder + binge + purge + bulimia + addicts + fragmented + fill + emptiness + calm + anxiety + void + vacant + connected + relationship
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I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could only show fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Posted on July 26, 2012 (♥ 205)
+ Elizabeth Wurtzel + prozac nation + mirror + shattered + broken + depression + useless + fragmented + cracks + beyond repair + eating disorder
