For example, people living with anorexia usually restrict the amount of food they eat, while bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binges and purges.
She repeatedly tried to suffocate herself with a plastic bag, howling with despair as she reached the point of being unable to resist taking a breath, he said.
It simply seems implausible that awful things might repeatedly unfold, at terribly inopportune moments, without some kind of malevolent intent being involved.
And he thought again and again of the food in the cache. It had been two days since he had anything to eat. It was a far longer time since he had had enough to eat.
Not once did his eyes meet hers and he spoke no word of interruption. He sat looking down at his hands, turning them over slowly, inspecting first palms and then backs, as though he had never seen them before.
I think it follows quite easily that if you can gain greater control over that narrator in your head, you can ruminate less, and think less about the past and the future, and be in the present.
The workplace is a collection of people in enforced and repeated proximity, their habits, noises and idiosyncrasies turning into something familiar for some colleagues and disproportionately grating for others.
And the fact, frankly, that they have had to go through this over and over again to get to this point, it's just horrifying that they -- the story had to be told over and over