Miss Johanna Isabelle Rose

This interview is with my online friend Sophie and is about having anorexia and recovering from anorexia.  The interview, here in this post, was done a while ago but I have just not come round to typing out and posting until now. I haven't done an interview post in a while, so I hope you like this and maybe I'll do some more in the future.  1) What does being anorexia mean? Being anorexic, is a person who is suffering from anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa, a serious mental disorder, where people have a strong need to lose weight, a feeling that they're never good enough, often self-indicating starvation, excessive exercise and many times engaging in self destructive behaviours.  2) When and how did it start and when did you see it was a problem? My anorexia was very gradually building from the age of 14, when I decided to go on a diet, and it was also contributed to by my emetophobia because I was scared I would be sick if I ate, so I lost weight when I was like 13, ...

I have wanted to write this storytime for ages, but I never got round to doing it BUT I am writing it now so I hope you enjoy it. So, a couple months ago I went to a "work centre" for some work experience. I went for a month. In the mornings I worked in a computer room and in the afternoon I did random jobs like packing boxes and putting together notebooks and leaflets...(I preferred the computer room work) Anyway, this story started half way through the month. One afternoon I walk into the room I work in and a young man, that looked to be aged in his late 20s, looked up and smiled at me. He was wearing jogging bottoms and a plain t-shirt and he also was bald. He hadn't been around before then, or maybe I just hadn't noticed. He smiled at me and I smiled back, not thinking anything of it, and found a table to work at for the afternoon, and sat down. I happened to look up often, because what I was working on was rather boring and I kind of liked watching what...