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multiple occasions in the past and have maintained recovery for extended
periods, ranging from several months to years. I am fully committed to
recovering and taking care of myself and returning to a healthy eating
pattern ASAP. I refuse to panic/despair.
David: JOANNA, ANOREXIA WILL DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO PANIC YOU, SO
BEWARE!!’
I wrote a sidenote to this email, inviting Joanna to express herself fully in the body
of the email.
Jo: Joanna, would you heed David’s warning that anorexia will do everything in its
power to panic you? And if so, how?
Joanna: Never mind what: I do not choose SS as an option.
Jo: I notice you have been choosing your own life and style for a while.
Joanna: I believe that if I give less importance to the problem, just accept it and
deal with it (making haste slowly) SS will lose interest and go away. Go back
to its own nest of darkness, tragedy, suffering, and destruction. where it
belongs.
Jo: Might this choice be for you to live?
David: MANY LEAGUE MEMBERS WOULD AGREE WITH YOU HERE - TO
SUMMARIZE THEM - 'THE MORE YOU GET INTO YOUR LIFE, THE MORE
SS/ANOREXIA IS EXCLUDED FROM IT’! DOES THAT RING ANY BELLS FOR
YOU?
Learning different strategies of combat against SS
David’s courage to speak out in resistance to SS was one of the most powerful
practices I’d ever experienced. He taught us never to fear it but to rather identify
An Apprenticeship in Extremis
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, December 2025 Release, p. 5-44.
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