If she does (by some miracle) decide to receive IP treatment for her mental health and go public with it, I hope there is some accountability for her actions on social media the past 18 months.
I say this as someone who is in the later stages of recovery from anorexia (The fact that I don’t say “recovered” is testament to how far I’ve come, as I refused to settle in a quasi state!) I know all too well how insidious an illness it can be, making you incredibly introspective and blinkered.
However, even the deepest rabbit hole cannot fail to here to the number of voices that have called her out. Asked her to stop posting food content - often politely, I will also add. The fact she has actively blocked much of this is a further sign that she is aware.
I write this because there is a tendency, when people go public about mental health struggles and decide to seek treatment, that people “write off” past questionable behaviour. That person becomes almost off limits in terms of criticism, because it could “derail their recovery” or trigger them. In hindsight, I wish more people had called me out! The illness turned me into an utter monster and, one of the reasons I am so resolved to never go back, is because loved ones have told me how bad I was at times. I never want to put them through that again.
I didn’t have an audience of 10,000s of young people I was doing that too also… and no illness can excuse for that.
I’m sorry for the ramble! This has just been on my mind and I wanted to put it out there.
