This Week in Mentalists: The 2012 Winners and Runners-up Edition

Hi everyone. It’s Amanda here from Beauty From Pain Blog. Sorry this is coming to you so late in the weekend. I was being my usual procrastinating self! Now I’m sure you’ve likely seen the announcement of the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013. (If you haven’t, do please check them out, and get nominating.) In doing this week’s round-up, I thought ‘why not go back and check in with some of last year’s winners and runner-ups?’ Let’s see what they’ve been up to and how they’ve been lately. So here goes. Firstly, I’d like to say that I do look forward to this year’s TWIM Awards, but in my eyes, everyone involved in the madosphere community is a winner, as we all play a part in it. To begin with, an insightful post from Falling Short of Perfection on Acknowleding the Assistance the ED has given. I think it’s also ok to thank the eating disorder for the role it has played. If for no other reason than to come to peace with it, and ultimately come to peace with my own journey that this illness has taken me on.But the reality is that the eating disorder has given me things I couldn’t have gotten from anywhere else; and I think it’s ok to acknowledge and accept that. The ‘benefits’ of the eating disorder certainly don’t outweight the costs and the negatives and that is why I am choosing to work hard at recoevery. I’m expecting to be slammed down by other eating disorder advocates, who ...
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