Memories of Being an In-patient-patient

It wasn’t all horrible

Tracy Busby
New Writers Welcome
5 min readFeb 10, 2022

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In the course of my life, I’ve been an in-patient-patient four times for an eating disorder. Let’s just say each time I went in, I didn’t really feel I was sick enough to deserve to be there, so there was always a part of me that felt I needed to “do better,” which, in my mind, amounted to being thin enough. I guess it was imposter syndrome. So each time, I…

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Tracy Busby
New Writers Welcome

Finger painter of words. I just kind of dump them on the page, swirl 'm around and see how it feels.