Angela Scanlon
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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an eating disorder an addiction serves to at least give you the illusion of controlling something or escaping the fear around not being able to control something so you are you're trying to control your body
body i'm trying to control my world i suppose like if i am so fixated on this then i don't have to worry about what i'm going to do when i grow up who i'm going to be with where i'm going where i'm going to live how i'm going to like build myself up to like become an adult and as a consequence of this you lose weight what happens what is the result of it
Yeah, you lose weight.
Or you don't, if you're binging and purging.
It went on for, in total, 15 years.
Well, they didn't know for a really long time.
No, not initially.
The appearance change would have happened when I had gone off travelling and I was kind of any of the...
stability I suppose of home was gone and I had nobody watching in ways so and and also I think it escalated at times when I went away because again this facade and this identity that I built up of being like a bad little bitch who can do anything I was very brave I was adventurous masked and
A sense of like homesickness that just did not sit well with me.
Homesickness was for weaklings, was for, you know, I was a worldly woman.
I had ideas and I had like I wanted a big life.
And so the idea of crying home to your parents with homesickness was crazy.
not a thing.
So I rejected any of the deeper feelings that I had around my fear of the world, I suppose.
I mean, did you... I had therapy for seven years and... In a nutshell, what was the conclusion?
I mean, I think in a nutshell, it was... It is control.
I don't think it can be traced back to any one thing.
I think there's a susceptibility.
Like, in college, I did my...
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