The image s below are the image I have chosen for my circular narrative. I chose these image because I all the image are similar in layout which makes the images kind of simple but I think that works a lot better because the idea is not very confusing. In each image their is the diary that the anorexic person write in, I did not make it simple for the view to decide in the writer of the diary is male or female all it has on it is the height and weight also what that person is eating each day.
I wanted the diary to seem as real as possible so I wrote the diary out my self so their will most like be mistakes with the spelling and the layout. I think this would show how the writer is as a person. It would of helped a lot more if I could have fond a photographic example of a diary of a person with a eating disorder but as I have already mention in another post, I could not find one.
I only did 10 weeks so that I could show how sometimes it can become so bad that it does not take long.
The first image is of the diary closed on the table. I made the diary look as it had not really been used yet, this is because I want to show it as the beginning of the persons eating disorder.
The diary looks quite dark compared to the table, I chose the diary to be a dark purple because this eating disorder is not something that is bright and happy it a mental illness that ruins peoples lives,
This image shows week 1 Monday through to Sunday. I wanted to start the diary as a very controlled diet only having 3 small meals and a snack a day which is how the eating disorder start the person is so set on this diet that he/she is controlling every aspect of it even how many celeries each meal/snack has in it. You can see the mistake in layout at the bottom of the page, I thought that this shows that the person is not completely organised at the beginning.
Week 2 and the person has not lost the amount of weight he/she wants so the person has snacks are cut out of their daily intake of food which shows that the person is still unhappy.
Week 3 is similar to week 2 a little bit of weight has been lost the person is now underweight for their high. The person is still counting calories which shows the person is still controlling the intake of food.
Week 4 is similar to week 3 except that some of the meals have been crossed out showing the food did not stay down. the person is now hiding that they are not eating enough by eating the food then vomiting what they have eaten this is how people with the eating disorder pretends that they are eating.
Week 5 the person is loosing more weight and is eating less each day soon the person is only eating 2 small meals a day.
Week 6 only 2 meals a day and loosing more weight the person is severely underweight but is still not eating enough
Week 7 the person is now erasing the meals that they have not kept down this is happening more often it is also making the person loos more weight, the person is also becoming too weak to do over activities so is not go out. So the person is thinking more about food and what they look like, the person still thinks they are over weight and are still unhappy.
Week 8 the person is now down to 2 meals a day, if you can call them meals. On Sunday 2 salads have been eaten this is not a normal diet but the person does not see this. The colours are still being counted.
Week 9 doesn't look like much the person is eating barley 2 items a day mainly salads the person is becoming so thin that their ribs can seen. The person is skin and bone. The person looks like a skeleton.
Week 10 too much weight has been lost nothing has been consumed for 3 days their is no Saturday or Sunday. What could have happen? Finally got help and been admitted to hospital? Or has lost?
Book is closed again on the table like a memory to what that person went through also that it can happen again.
