TREATMENT

A film written and directed by Raaniya Kashif

ACTION!

ACT 1: 

Early hours, 8AM; Aria scrolls through her Pinterest looking at young and skinny models she wishes she could look like. Her Bulimia Nervosa currently isn't that bad, it's just a slight stressor but nothing to worry about. She eats 2 meals a day, but keeps a rough track on calories. There hasn't been any purging episodes in weeks.

ACT 2:

Her consistent need to scroll through the internet and compare herself to the other people becomes worse and worse. She feels the need to drown herself in make-up and wear certain baggy clothes to avoid the shape of her body. However, none of this helps Aria. Her meal times and sizes decrease. She constantly takes her own measurements in her mirrors. She tracks all her calories in a journal and starts to lose her mind.

She purges one day, and then sits there on her bathroom floor, curled into a ball, questioning what she has done to herself.

ACT 3:

After that, Aria decides that she is done with this illness. She wants to get better. So what she does is write a letter to herself a year from now with the goals on recovery, and that - was her first step.

The voices remain in her head but, she will never go back.

CUT!