Throughout the story anorexia started to slowly take over Katie's life, her life revolved around getting skinnier, and maintaining a lifestyle to keep getting thinner. For katie it was difficult to accept the fact that she had a problem, she believed that there was only one way to make everything better and that was by losing weight. This could be considered ”Anosognosia”(Treatment AC) it plays with your mind and keeps you away from acknowledging what's really going on with you. “As the year progressed, so did the bullying and the teachers denial of it”(Anorexia pg 22). Bullying is so common at this time and is done very often causing things like anorexia. People expect others to look a certain way because of the world's perception of things and if you arent …show more content…
“And so anorexia gripped at my life tighter”(Anorexia pg 22). As her disorder progressed she came to be more and more in denial of the truth, “ I didn’t believe that my weight loss was the cause”(Anorexia pg 24) as her symptoms started to get worse. Katie kept seeing a different body that was different from hers as she looked in the mirror she didn’t see how skinny she was she continues to perceive herself as being excessively fat which was false as Anorexia makes you believe and plays with your mind. “When ever I looked in a mirror, I saw two black dots driven into a mound of quivering blubber staring back at me”(Anorexia pg 24), which was untrue it was just anorexia in affect, in reality she is really skinny but she wasn’t able to see it. As anorexia continues to take over her life she body continues to be affected more and more. “My hair began to come out in clumps when it was brushed….my nails and lips were blue when i went outside….and my nails were becoming brittle and flaky and snapped at the lightest touch”(Anorexia pg