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Wander deep into eating disorders and turn back, if you can;
Anorexia leaves a scar.
See it in a light you have never experienced before.
A short, punchy, and intense memoir of a teenager's experience with her inner demons.
Anorexia leaves a scar.
See it in a light you have never experienced before.
A short, punchy, and intense memoir of a teenager's experience with her inner demons.
49 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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August 19, 2013
I just love this book to death. (I also love the author to death, because I've followed her blogs for a while now and she is amazing and beautiful and smart and the things she's written about eating disorder recovery have helped me more than anything else and I just love her.) It's difficult for me to read, since I've suffered from this same disease and tend to be easily triggered, but I've read it twice anyway because it's just that awesome. It's so heartbreaking, so emotional, so REAL.
One part that really stuck with me was when she ate a McMuffin and started to feel relieved thinking "maybe it's gone", but then it came back and the horrible angry sad internal monologue started up again. For some reason that part just really got me and I keep going back to it in my head and thinking about how wonderful it would be if this thing in my head just went away one day, and how cripplingly painful it would if it came back again. That's another thing about this book: it makes you think a lot. It gets you so immersed in this eating disorder world that I imagine even someone without an ED would have a hard time not empathizing. Kate, I know you doubt yourself a lot, but you did a fantastic job with this book.
One part that really stuck with me was when she ate a McMuffin and started to feel relieved thinking "maybe it's gone", but then it came back and the horrible angry sad internal monologue started up again. For some reason that part just really got me and I keep going back to it in my head and thinking about how wonderful it would be if this thing in my head just went away one day, and how cripplingly painful it would if it came back again. That's another thing about this book: it makes you think a lot. It gets you so immersed in this eating disorder world that I imagine even someone without an ED would have a hard time not empathizing. Kate, I know you doubt yourself a lot, but you did a fantastic job with this book.
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