Sublime

Lina is having a mental breakdown because nobody cares. Nobody died, so nobody cares. She feels that she’s suffocating.

We know that the longer a person loses weight, maintains low weight, purges, and binges (in other words, the more chronically ill she is), the less likely we will be successful in getting rid of the eating disorder.

But more than the new body size, it was the lightness of being that enthralled me; although I didn’t quite understand the connection between trusting myself around food and trusting less tangible hungers (for rest, contact, meaning), the relationship with food became the lens through which I began to see almost everything.

“an exhaustive list of purported ailments—[is] carried around by a neurotic patient, often accompanied by extensive documentation of each bowel movement or sip of water.”

The e and final letter of DOPAMINE stands for experiment. This is where patients go back out into the world armed with a new dopamine set point (a level pleasure-pain balance) and a plan for how to maintain it. Whether the goal is continued abstinence or moderation, like Delilah’s, we strategize together for how to achieve it. Through a gradual pro

In asking Delilah to consider her current behavior in light of her future self, I hoped that quitting smoking would take on new urgency. It seemed to have worked.

She was unreachable, trapped on that vicious merry-go-round of mental illness: sickness, bizarre behavior, institutionalization, medication, stability, release, abandonment of medication regimen, sickness.

Quando ela chega, destrói o indivíduo e finalmente ofusca sua capacidade de dar ou receber afeição.