Demi Lovato Defends Eating Disorder Sufferers: Having Anorexia or Bulimia Isn’t a Choice
Demi Lovato Defends Eating Disorder Sufferers: Having Anorexia or Bulimia Isn’t a Choice – Demi Lovato has been a longtime advocate for those struggling with eating disorders, and now she’s coming forward to urge people to rethink how people view those who are dealing with a debilitating illness like anorexia or bulimia.
The singer first began her Twitter spree by giving a shout out to an organization that’s helped her, writing, “Mental illness can be isolating. Thanks @DBSAlliance 4 showing me the power of peer support.” Lovato then went on to say: “Having an eating disorder doesn’t show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.
She continued, “It’s the ignorance and lack of education on mental illnesses that continues to [put] mental health care on the back burner to congress even though this is an epidemic that is sweeping our nation, and causing more and more tragedy every day.”
“It’s time we start taking mental illness as serious as physical illnesses,” she wrote.
