Testimony of Healing October 30, 1989 Issue

At one time I thought that I was ill with a severe case of...

Judith Ann Belanger

At one time I thought that I was ill with a severe case of anemia, but the difficulty proved to be of a more emotional nature. Today it is referred to as anorexia nervosa.

During this period in my life I was feeling helplessly out of control. The religion I had been raised in taught the basic doctrine that man is a sinner, born into sin. The concepts of reformation and healing almost never entered the picture. I was feeling so insecure about myself as this miserable sinner that I just couldn't bring myself to go through with college plans or any other plan for betterment. After working with psychologists, I pursued other possibilities to further my education, but all endeavors failed.

This left me feeling terribly out of control. I just couldn't keep myself on any straight path or set a goal I felt worthy of. However, I knew I could control one thing—what I ate. So I began eating less and less; and the more out of control I felt, the less I ate. My hair began to fall out, so that I wore a wig. I stopped menstruating. One day I had to leave work early. When I got home, I collapsed and could not get out of bed.

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