My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of seeking help for personal struggles, particularly for young girls facing serious challenges.
Demi Lovato encourages teen girls who are dealing with eating disorders and self-harm to seek help as a crucial step towards healing. She highlights that reaching out for support not only improves one's quality of life but can also be a life-saving decision, underlining the power of vulnerability and the strength found in asking for assistance.
In practice
In a support group for young women dealing with mental health issues.
Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.
I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.
Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.
Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.
If you have a secret, and it's embarrassing to you, when you tell that story - you own it. It becomes yours, and no one can use it against you.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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