It’s really weird! She’s obsessed with productivity but it’s so fruitless because she’s not having any fun or ya know, learning anything about herself, it’s just repetition repetition repetition. I’m a few years older than her and definitely lead a rather more hedonistic lifestyle (which isn’t hard I guess) but my twenties have been lots of ups and downs and learning curves. She seems to just REALLY want for that never to happen.
I cannot believe she didn't have it for her eating disorder, which explains why she hasn't really recovered
yeh exactly, my parents basically forced me into therapy when I was younger because I was a total mess, I don't recall ever really seeing her parents in videos but (and this sounds quite harsh) from the impression I have of how Holly is I get the impression they are quite strange tbh...
She also had that very irritating video where she said (paraphrasing because I can't be arsed to find it) something like 'depression is a choice'
This sounds like they're anti vaxxers... I have legitimately never heard anyone say that about birth control... don't agree with maybe (also ridiculous) but not to believe in.... if Holly shares these views how the hell could she study something medical?!
exactly, the more i learn about her and her family odd believes the more i understand why she got rejected from medicine at cambridge
That's the thing about Cambridge though-you do get a lot of incredibly smart people there, but a lot of them are purely book smart and have no common sense or intelligence about life beyond academia.
And this is exactly why it is for the best she didn’t get into medicine school. Can you imagine a teenage girl going to her as a GP worried about birth control or struggling with an ED... Holly wouldn’t be able to give the correct advice to the patient; it would be a biased response. Fancy a GP saying they don’t believe in birth control?! Or not recommending therapy for struggling with an ED? A friend of a friend is a religious GP for example, but their religious bias stays at home, when they act as GP they act in the interests of the patient. I may sound harsh here but I can imagine Holly telling patients that they need to go vegan.
Okay so this video from 3 years back popped up into my recommendations on YT. And oh my god...
look at the comments underneath! People are genuinely concerned about the fact Holly just doesn’t (and still doesn’t) cook with oil because it’s not a ‘health food’. If that isn’t the textbook definition of how not to recover from an eating disorder then I don’t know what is.
she also responds extremely defensively to the comments. If that’s how she responds to people when they question her on her actions/beliefs, or if someone else’s beliefs don’t align with hers, then no wonder she didn’t get into medicine!
She hasn’t changed her meal repertoire since around her second year of uni. It’s always been smoothies, smoothie BOWLS, and boiled veg with some beans & maybe a nut butter. She barely snacks- and if she does it’s on something like a plum. She barely even makes that ‘nice-cream’ (blended frozen bananas) anymore, although maybe that’s for the best because too many bananas can wreak havoc on your bowel movements
God i only got half way through that video, even what she says in it is contradictory. fat is necessary so she eats nuts, but then she criticises olive oil as it is a fat... i cannot believe she got into cambridge and did a science degree no less!
