is loaded with sugar. Sure itâs artificial but itâs still sugar⦠so that just proves I donât have a problem with my weight.
6. PICKING FROM THE FRIDGE
Whatâs wrong with that? But little brother does it. I just like to taste food. So right⦠now youâre saying you donât want me to eat. This is stupid.
7. BAD BREATH
What, am I perfect?
8. LAXATIVE ABUSE
My grandma takes laxatives. Are we going to haul her off to hospital are we? Sometimes I have trouble going to the toilet⦠lots of people do. I suppose if I had lots of money I could go and have a colonic flush every dayâthatâs where they flush out your bowels with waterâhow gross is that?
9. IRREGULAR OR NON EXISTENT MENSTRUATION
My period was never regular⦠and lots of people lose their periods under stress. I hate these articles⦠I mean, whatâs regular anyway? This person should define their terms.
10. CHANGES IN BEHAVIOUR
Oh, right. Letâs take everyone in the whole world off to hospital then.
SANCIA throws the magazine down visciously. She is furious.
Anyway Iâm just growing up and donât like doing the things I used to do. Sometimes Iâm happy, sometimes Iâm sad. I suppose I could always have a lobotomy.
I just focus on different things at different times⦠Iâve always been like that. Iâm just private. I donât like the whole world knowing everything about me.
And I especially donât like people walking around with dumb magazine articles like this and spying on me and watching everything I do.
SANCIA is now very distressed, shouting; she is trapped and knows she is sick now.
There is nothing wrong with me, itâs just a stage Iâm going through.
The only problem with me is that Iâm too fat.
So get off my case⦠leave me alone!
IN THE MIRROR
SANCIA poses in the mirror⦠she discovers her hair is falling out, her teeth are rotting, her skin is transparent and a light fur is growing on her arms and face.
She is extremely weak and wearily climbs into her bed.
HOSPITAL
Uh ohâ¦
Iâve really done it this time. Iâm in hospital.
The embarrassing thing is⦠thereâs nothing wrong with me.
Well, nothing that a sausage roll wouldnât fix.
If I could eat a sausage roll.
If I could eat anything.
But I canât.
Mumâs bought me a new nightie.
I donât need a new nightie.
The girls will come and visit me sitting up in bed in my new nightie.
Theyâll bring flowers and cards⦠they wonât bring a box of chocolates.
âDonât be stupid⦠she wonât eat chocolates. Theyâre fattening⦠she wonât eat anything fattening, moron. Anyway sheâs really sick. Buy her something sheâll like. Buy her twenty packets of Extra.â
What will they think when they find out itâs only Anorexia Nervosa.
Theyâll hate me.
I wish I had cancer of something.
Or a tumour
Maybe a hole in the heart.
I must have a hole in the heart
To make everyone worry like this.
Iâm going to put on weight just lying here.
They want to keep me here to fatten me up
Like a battery pig.
I hate being here
I want to go home.
Oh no.
Visitorsâ¦
Hello everyone.
Lovely to see you.
Great, I feel fine⦠Iâm just a little bit tired.
Theyâre doing some tests in the morning.
Thanks for the Extra.
But I canât eat after 8 pm.
Not that that will be a problem.
Ha ha ha.
I canât believe I actually laughed
Right in their faces
They were all sitting here with sad faces
And I laughed.
I wish I could die.
So, Doc⦠how am I doing?
Hair falling out
Scaly skin
Loose teeth
Slow pulse
Hypoglycaemia
Periods stopped
Tooth enamel wearing off
Fungus in the fingernails
Dehydration
Constipation
Malnutrition
And I have fur growing on my bodyâ¦
Yeah⦠but apart from thatâ¦
How am I?
Iâve got IT.
ITâs official.
Anorexia Nervosa.
Now everyone will
6. PICKING FROM THE FRIDGE
Whatâs wrong with that? But little brother does it. I just like to taste food. So right⦠now youâre saying you donât want me to eat. This is stupid.
7. BAD BREATH
What, am I perfect?
8. LAXATIVE ABUSE
My grandma takes laxatives. Are we going to haul her off to hospital are we? Sometimes I have trouble going to the toilet⦠lots of people do. I suppose if I had lots of money I could go and have a colonic flush every dayâthatâs where they flush out your bowels with waterâhow gross is that?
9. IRREGULAR OR NON EXISTENT MENSTRUATION
My period was never regular⦠and lots of people lose their periods under stress. I hate these articles⦠I mean, whatâs regular anyway? This person should define their terms.
10. CHANGES IN BEHAVIOUR
Oh, right. Letâs take everyone in the whole world off to hospital then.
SANCIA throws the magazine down visciously. She is furious.
Anyway Iâm just growing up and donât like doing the things I used to do. Sometimes Iâm happy, sometimes Iâm sad. I suppose I could always have a lobotomy.
I just focus on different things at different times⦠Iâve always been like that. Iâm just private. I donât like the whole world knowing everything about me.
And I especially donât like people walking around with dumb magazine articles like this and spying on me and watching everything I do.
SANCIA is now very distressed, shouting; she is trapped and knows she is sick now.
There is nothing wrong with me, itâs just a stage Iâm going through.
The only problem with me is that Iâm too fat.
So get off my case⦠leave me alone!
IN THE MIRROR
SANCIA poses in the mirror⦠she discovers her hair is falling out, her teeth are rotting, her skin is transparent and a light fur is growing on her arms and face.
She is extremely weak and wearily climbs into her bed.
HOSPITAL
Uh ohâ¦
Iâve really done it this time. Iâm in hospital.
The embarrassing thing is⦠thereâs nothing wrong with me.
Well, nothing that a sausage roll wouldnât fix.
If I could eat a sausage roll.
If I could eat anything.
But I canât.
Mumâs bought me a new nightie.
I donât need a new nightie.
The girls will come and visit me sitting up in bed in my new nightie.
Theyâll bring flowers and cards⦠they wonât bring a box of chocolates.
âDonât be stupid⦠she wonât eat chocolates. Theyâre fattening⦠she wonât eat anything fattening, moron. Anyway sheâs really sick. Buy her something sheâll like. Buy her twenty packets of Extra.â
What will they think when they find out itâs only Anorexia Nervosa.
Theyâll hate me.
I wish I had cancer of something.
Or a tumour
Maybe a hole in the heart.
I must have a hole in the heart
To make everyone worry like this.
Iâm going to put on weight just lying here.
They want to keep me here to fatten me up
Like a battery pig.
I hate being here
I want to go home.
Oh no.
Visitorsâ¦
Hello everyone.
Lovely to see you.
Great, I feel fine⦠Iâm just a little bit tired.
Theyâre doing some tests in the morning.
Thanks for the Extra.
But I canât eat after 8 pm.
Not that that will be a problem.
Ha ha ha.
I canât believe I actually laughed
Right in their faces
They were all sitting here with sad faces
And I laughed.
I wish I could die.
So, Doc⦠how am I doing?
Hair falling out
Scaly skin
Loose teeth
Slow pulse
Hypoglycaemia
Periods stopped
Tooth enamel wearing off
Fungus in the fingernails
Dehydration
Constipation
Malnutrition
And I have fur growing on my bodyâ¦
Yeah⦠but apart from thatâ¦
How am I?
Iâve got IT.
ITâs official.
Anorexia Nervosa.
Now everyone will