Eating Disorders

Includes anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder / compulsive overeating, and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). Mental illnesses involving a combination of thoughts / feelings, behaviors, and symptoms linked to eating/food and weight gain/loss and body image and physical symptoms.

Wintergirls
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
The Best Little Girl in the World
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Just Listen
Skinny
Thin
Paperweight
Perfect
Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
Elena Vanishing
Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders
Uprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkHidden Valley Road by Robert KolkerThe Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. YalomMaybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Outstanding Reads: Psychology
97 books — 13 voters

The Bad Guy by Celia AaronBlack Lies by Alessandra TorreMy Torin by K. WebsterEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanGrayson by Lisa Eugene
Heroes with mental illness
275 books — 154 voters
The Care & Keeping of You by Valorie SchaeferA Smart Girl's Guide to Money by Nancy HolyokeSchool RULES! Math by Emma MacLaren HenkeIs This Normal? by Norm BendellClutter Control by American Girl
American Girl Guides
99 books — 8 voters

Geneen Roth
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5) ...more
Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Naomi Wolf
A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we co ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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