A painful, powerful, and ultimately enriching account of what it
feels like to be young, confused, and controlled by food.
Adolescence is a time full of pitfalls for teenage girls. Many
escape relatively unscathed; some -- unable to cope successfully
with the pressures exerted by family, school, and the media --
develop eating disorders. Marianne Apostolides was one of those
girls. She became anorexic at the age of fourteen and struggled for
the next ten years with anorexia, binge eating, and bulimia.
In this courageous work, Apostolides recreates the years in
which she felt she could control her life only by controlling her
diet. Insecure, unable to communicate with her parents, and driven
to achieve at school, she initially found relief in the structure
of calorie-counting and schedules. When the constant dieting became
too much for her body to handle, she began to binge, and then to
binge and purge. Her world defined by food, Apostolides would
battle throughout high school, college, and adulthood to confront
the deeper issues that compelled her to hurt herself again and
again.
This is a book about a young woman who did not know how to cope
with her feelings, and who, through therapy, was able to find the
road to recovery at last. Absorbing and honest, hers is an
important story of anguish, frustration, and, ultimately,
triumph.
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