Suzanna's Analysis

“You can’t escape who you are; no matter how much you hate her face, her voice and her body. You can’t change her; so, you beat her. You must embrace her.” These are quotes from Suzanna’s dairy that summarizes the consistent vigorous battle individual’s with eating disorders fight daily. When hearing Suzanna read excerpts from her dairy, I begin to in vision prisoners. Individuals trapped behind bars and in shackles. They hate the shackles and bars that confide them; yet for some, freedom is not held for long and they return. This is similar to that of Suzanna’s story; her body acts as her bars and shackles; yet, like many prisoners who return to prison after short periods of freedom, Suzanna reaches goals of weight lost (freedom) and shortly …show more content…
Suzanna was able to interact with those around her, accomplish such amazing things and yet hold so much hate for the body she lived in. Hearing Suzanna’s story really helped me to become more aware of those around me; in order to be an aid to them. After hearing Suzanna’s story and seeing pictures from her life. I was able to conclude that Suzanna lived with Benge-Purge Anorexia. I believe that she expressed this form of Anorexia because, she talked about hanging out with a friend who shared her struggle with body image, and the two of them cooking together, eating, and knowing that after they were both throwing up. She also mentioned going through phases were all she would intake was coffee. This process of eating, vomiting and then starving the body are all signs of Benge-Purge Anorexia (class lecture). On Suzanna’s Axis sheet there are many physical side effects of Anorexia, as well as some things that are unique to Benge-Purge Anorexia. One of the physical effects that Suzanna demonstrated that are unique to Benge-Purge Anorexia