Story One: Morgan Cornacchini
I’m still kind of fighting my battle with anorexia. The most weight loss happened through middle school up until my sophomore year in high school. The difficult thing is that no one knows really what anorexia is. It’s when you starve yourself based on what you believe you look like in the mirror. Basically you have two voices in your head and one kind of takes over and tells you about your negative body image and that you’re fat and that you’re worthless.
The difficult part is once you regain the physical health, you seem healed, but you still have to conquer the negative thoughts in your head. I was ashamed of my mental illness, but mental illness is just like physical illness. You would never hide that you have the flu from someone. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone struggles. So it’s a choice you have to make every day, to find other ways to reduce your stress and combat those negative thoughts.
I’ve realized that you just have to keep smiling, or find the little silver linings every day – which sounds super cliché – but it actually does help in the long run.