The heartache I endured

[JasonWatson]

It all started when I was 14 years old. My older brother and I would arrive home after school to a lovley house, parents and overall happiness. But little did those closest to me relise that I was enduring an illness that would affect me for the next 10. suffering from bulimia had changed me in ways which I would never have comprehended from rotting teath, permant reflux and paranoia. The main issue that i found was the stigma associated with males around mental illness, you will be ok man, be a man and stop it that was al i heard from those closest to me. it took me 10 years to over come this which is ridiculous because I only needed one person to tell me there story for me to overcome mine. those of you are suffering now, remember life is about living not surving. find that little but of insporation and hold onto it because that is what will get you through this.

[Agora1]

I'm sorry JasonWatson that no one really understood or was there for you when you needed them most. Male or female, doesn't matter. The pain and loneliness is there all the same. Society needs to become aware that it is not a gender illness but a human one. It doesn't make you less of a man or woman when in the throws of eating disorders.

You seemed to have come a long way (by yourself) in the last ten years. You are absolutely correct in that life is about living and not just surviving/existing. Thank you for passing your experience forward so that others may be inspired and know they are not alone.

It just takes one person and that person was you JasonWatson.