Secret Teacher: why can’t I tell pupils about my eating disorder?

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I see students limiting their lunches and worrying about their weight. I want to tell then I’ve survived the bully in my head but I’m worried it’ll mark me out as vulnerable

I can still remember a time when I wasn’t obsessed with every single thing I ate. I would tuck into pizza without feeling guilty, or go out for dinner with my boyfriend and eat what I fancied – not what had the lowest calories.

At university my issues with food became an obsession. Surrounded by girls I thought were thinner, prettier and cleverer than me, I immersed myself in a world of limiting, purging and excessive exercising. I’d consume 200 calories a day and spend hours in the gym, or eat an entire easter egg and run 10 miles, throwing up along the way.

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SOURCE: Eating disorders | The Guardian – Read entire story here.

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