I've battled anorexia for a little less than a year. I noticed that Sean Murray lost weight and this story popped into my head.
I am not implying that Sean Murray has an eating disorder.
His stomach growled, demanding food. He curled into a ball, trying to make the growling go away. What was he doing to himself? He was killing himself ever so slowly and he couldn't help it. He remembered when his team members use to tease him about his weight. They didn't know it but he took the teasing seriously and stopped eating. First it was sweets, then junk food, and then fruit. Soon vegetables would be joining the list.
He remembered going to a family reunion a few months back and his sister commenting about his size.
'Tim you lost so much weight! You look anorexic now!' Sarah McGee had commented.
He knew his sister was joking but McGee searched up 'anorexia' anyways. He knew he didn't have it, only girls get anorexia. But he could soon not deny it. He did suffer from anorexia. All the symptoms matched. He kept searching, but all the resources he found where about women nothing about men.
More than once he had wanted to get help but admitting he had a women's disease wasn't exactly something he wanted to do. He could just imagine what DiNozzo would say: 'McGee is a he-she!'
He didn't want that, he just wanted to be skinny. It wasn't that much to ask for was it?
He closed his eyes and let the tears slid down his face.