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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia is a 2023 autobiographical memoir written by Hadley Freeman, and published by Fourth Estate for HarperCollins. The book explores Freeman's struggles with anorexia nervosa from age 14 to 17, and subsequently with obsessive–compulsive disorder and addiction to cocaine . [ 1 ]
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us is a 2022 non-fiction book by Rachel Aviv [1] that focuses on mental illness, diagnosis, and people in extreme mental distress. It was listed among the New York Times’ " The 10 Best Books of 2022 ".
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiography written by Marya Hornbacher, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. [1] Published by HarperCollins in 1997, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age (she wrote the book at the age of 21) surprised many readers, and the memoir was praised ...
Gripped by anorexia nervosa at the tender age of 11, a now 25-year-old Chrystall says medical professionals assumed she had the disease for "so long and was so far gone that I would probably ...
Nearly 1% to 2% of females and 0.1% to 0.3% of males will develop anorexia at some point, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. In fact, anorexia has the highest associated ...
Marya Justine Hornbacher (born April 4, 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist.. Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-three. [3]
The Best Little Girl in the World is a 1979 American young adult coming of age novel by Steven Levenkron, telling the story of Kessa, a teen who suffers from an eating disorder. [1] The book was originally published by Warner Books in 1979.
Letting Ana Go is a 2013 book about a girl suffering from anorexia nervosa, published anonymously with no discernible author.The main character, "Ana", is a sophomore student and athletic track star who keeps a strict food diary and finds herself growing increasingly distant from her own family, while her own mother struggles with newfound morbid obesity and separation from her husband.