“
This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish
of those who are in so much pain
that death feels like relief,
different from the suicide I would later attempt,
trying to escape that pain.
This is a wish to murder yourself;
the connotation of kill is too mild.
This is a belief that you
deserve slow torture, violent death. ”
- MARYA HORNBACHER
WASTED: A MEMOIR OF ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA.