Control

It’s easy for me to act like I don’t have control issues.  To convince myself that I never actually had an eating disorder— it never got that bad.  Ok, yeah, there were a few days last Christmas break where I only ate 600 calories, but that was just a couple days!  It doesn’t matter that doing that almost felt good, they were isolated incidents! 

Then something comes along and reminds me.

I got my wisdom teeth out on Monday.  Beforehand I was absolutely.freaking.terrified.  My mom didn’t understand why— she thought I was worried about the surgery going wrong.  That’s what she was worried about.
 
Me?  I was worried about being on Vicodin.  About maybe losing control.  About maybe not being coherent enough to remember how many calories I had eaten that day.

I had an epiphany a few months back, watching Supernatural.  That alone is a really humiliating time to have an epiphany, let me tell you.  It was the episode where Famine comes to town, and everyone loses control of their hunger.

Now, I spent my childhood watching NOVA documentaries on ebola and the black plague and never blinked an eye.  Gore in movies generally doesn’t bother me.  I’ve dissected animals, no problem, watched a mouse struggle to death in a mousetrap without feeling bad, seen pus drain out of a scar the full width of my mother’s chest into a little collection bottle meant for it— nothing.

But that episode of Supernatural made me feel like throwing up.  It was the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.

Somehow I don’t think that says anything good about me.

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