For Jessi Davin, Anorexia isn’t something to joke about.
Ever since 2011, this "Anna Rexia" costume has made the rounds online every Halloween.
The site that sells it still offers it on their site.
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It inspired Jessi Davin, a 26-year-old woman from Florida, to pen a powerful blog post about her own experiences with anorexia. Davin was diagnosed with the disease at 19 and was in treatment until she was 22.
-4 years of hospitalization
-A nasogastric feeding-tube because you've starved yourself so much that your body doesn't recognize food as a good thing and tries to attack itself.
-Re-Feeding Syndrome, which can kill you.
-Emotional struggles for years.
-A father crying and pleading on his knees begging for you to get help
-A mother who cries every time she sees you because you look and SMELL like death.
-Holidays missed, birthdays crying in a hospital.
Almost every major organ in your body failing.
-A shower chair - because you can't stand in the shower because you're too weak and the warm water could make you pass out.
-A wheelchair, because you are too weak to walk and it could make you go into cardiac arrest.
-A lifetime of medications for anxiety and the health issues "Anna Rexia" caused.
-Plenty of money for multiple ER trips due to "Anna Rexia" even in recovery.
-And if you don't get help like I do, or even if you do, a coffin. Because I've lost more friends to this eating disorder then anything I've ever faced.
-I almost died from this. I know it's supposed to be funny and shit and yeah I get that, but seriously.
Concluding the post with, "Want to dress as 'Anna Rexia'? Just go as a vampire, or a zombie. Because 1/3 of us are dead."
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