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(1)
Presentation |
My name is Violeta
and I’m 19. |
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(2) Current height and weight |
I’m
1,52m tall and I weight 53Kg. |
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(3) Identification
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Since I’m
12, anorexia has been a nightmare of which I can’t wake
up. |
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(4) Initial Scenery
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Everything
started when I was at school. |
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(5) Trigger-event |
One day
someone said to me ‘hey, how come you look like that?’.
I felt shattered, the hidden meaning was “you’re getting
fat”. |
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(6) Reactions
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I started
to avoid food and to try to vomit, but as I couldn’t, I
bought laxatives, which only provoked stomach–aches. I also
started to do some exercise. After a long time trying I managed
to vomit and started to do it on a daily basis. So much that it
became a routine. |
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(7) Aftermath: threshold weight
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I eventually got to the edge
of 30kg. |
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(8) Social perception |
People told
me that I seemed to be sick, but I thought that they told me so
because they envied me. |
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(9) Professional diagnostic |
I started
to go to a psychologist and it was there where they detected my
anorexia. |
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(10) Relapses
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I was interned
several times in mental asylums, where I was given tranquillisers,
anti-depressives, serum... But I still didn’t eat. I recovered
little by little, but whenever I exited the clinic and went back
to normal life I started to loose weight. |
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(11) Self-perception: moraljudgement
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This illness
has made me change a lot, because it has turned me into a liar
and a bastard. |
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(12) Farewell, advices,
seek for help
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I’d
like someone helped me and if you are interested e-mail me. |
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TABLE 1. Narrative
structure of the accounts with its attributed function |
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