Giselle is a young women who is 22 and looks younger and smaller than her 13 year old sister. The only reason she looks this way is because she is anorexic. She is frail and fragile and has no desire to eat. Giselle says that she is hungry but is too hungry to eat. I think that part of this is just Giselle's mind telling her that she can not eat and it is also her heart telling her that she is hungry.
In a way it is like conflicting emotions because her body is hungry and she is a human being of course and we must eat but her mind refuses to eat shush always gets the best of her. Giselle constantly starves herself. I think that at this point she she is used to it and When she gets hungry she learns to ignore it. I think that Giselle has thoughts about eating food but her emotion almost always get the best of her. This reminds me of sometimes when I get so tired that I can't go to sleep but it is not conflicted emotions, it's out my control. No matter how much I want to go to sleep I can.
This makes me think maybe Giselle is not doing this entirely out of her own will. Maybe it is uncontrollable and as hungry as she is, something is stopping her from eating. I think that this could also mean that Giselle is depressed after the death of her father. Once again I relate it to personal experience. Once when I was going through a tough time, I could for not eat for about a month. Sometimes mental sickness can play a big part on your eating habit. This could be reason why Giselle feels this way?
I do think that this is a mental issue because if she's hungry then why doesn't she just eat something? Something must be bothering her... I cant even imagine what she must look or feel like to be 22 and smaller than her 13 year old sister. It must be very embarrassing for her. It would be for me. Also, shouldn't looking in the mirror and seeing her body like this be a sign for her? Or maybe she even has guilt and is trying to hide something else deep down?
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