Sunday, 11 May 2008

Mothers & Madness











Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively

Yes. It is.

I spent ages looking for a meaningful quote and got annoyed. Voltaire will have to do.

This blog exists because I was feeling left out. I don't want to reach middle or old age and be my mother: semi-blissfully ignorant of all there is out there. Or be like her at all in any way, in fact. I appear to have made it my life's work to not be my mother. I imagine I'm not unique in that.

So. Eating disorders. My daughter seems to have one. She was raped. Now she will only consume tiny quantities of "clean" food. That's fruit. Only fruit. For 6 weeks now. I am scareder than scared. If she carries on forever like this she will be taken into hospital and locked in and made to sit in a circle and share and she may very well lose her mind.

God help us.

1 comment:

Maia said...

You are your own person with a beautiful soul, and you will never, and can never, be anything else.

I see your Voltaire and raise you the Bible: "The truth will make you free."

Love always, m