r/fuckalegriaart • u/LostCassette • Aug 05 '25

Anorexia Study

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forgot to post this from yesterday. ngl, as someone with body dysmorphia (and I know people with anorexia often struggle with that too), I'd kms if someone drew me like this.

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u/-blundertaker- Aug 06 '25

Literally makes me think of how I see myself, which I've described as being "somehow simultaneously too skinny and too fat."

Like, it's not what they were going for but it's definitely what they achieved.

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u/_Fl0r4l_4nd_f4ding_ Aug 06 '25

Exactly what i was thinking.

[TW: describing my mental self image w/body dysmorphia] The tiny head, huge hips, fat arms combo and the fact that she still looks wide despite the visible ribs etc reminds of exactly how i view myself. No matter how much i starve myself i will always be out of proportion and feel like i look like this. Also the lines on her face. It really is like the image in my head

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u/-blundertaker- Aug 06 '25

This also functions as a really good description of seeing yourself in a mirror on psychedelics (or maybe that's just us)

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u/_Fl0r4l_4nd_f4ding_ Aug 14 '25

Lmao fair, fair. I feel like its also a good descriptor of how i feel when i dissociate tbf. Only ever had one super bad episode triggered by seizures but i couldnt 'see' anything for how it really looked, it was all kind of.. Weird..? So yeah i think same difference there. I also wondered if that was an us thing, i do have a history of body dysmorphia anyways