Eating Disorder Memoirs

To Erin Washington, soccer was everything. As a high school stand-out who had played since she was four years old, soccer became the prime focus of her obsessive-natured personality. After losing her identity as an athlete when her college career ended abruptly, Erin spent the next twenty years battling body image and hiding a dangerous secret.

As soon as we are born into the world, we are hungry. We have an instinctual need that must be regularly addressed. It’s a habitual tug that makes us human. We need food and nutrients to strengthen our bones, fill us up, and satisfy our cravings. When we are grown, we get the choice to decide what we do with that innate longing.

From Hadley Freeman, the bestselling author of House of Glass, comes her searing and powerful memoir about mental ill health and her experience with anorexia. This is how the Anorexia Speak worked in my head: ‘Boys like girls with curves on them’ – If you ever eat anything you will be mauled by thuggish boys with giant paws for hands. ‘Don’t you get hungry?’ – You are so strong and special, and I envy your strength and specialness. ‘Have you tried swimming? I find that really improves my appetite’ – You need to do more exercise.

Wenn ich heute in den Spiegel schaue, sehe ich einen gutaussehenden (Mal mehr, mal weniger) jungen Mann. Nicht perfekt. Narben überall am Körper, ein kleines Bäuchlein, Lovehandles, nicht sehr groß oder gar muskulös. Aber ein Anblick der mir gefällt. Das war nicht immer so und der Weg dahin war gepflastert mit Ängsten, Schmerzen, Abscheu, Komplikationen, Depressionen und Hoffnung. Mein Name ist Riyas Hoge und in I did it my way - Maskenball nehme ich euch mit auf meinen Weg in ein freies Leben.

Balena è la storia di un corpo che cambia e diventa gigantesco, ma è anche la storia di una donna che si riappropria di sé grazie a quel corpo. Dopo la perdita del padre, a soli undici anni, Giulia inizia a cercare di colmare quel vuoto enorme col cibo, finendo per passare da 40 a 96 chili in pochi mesi. Poi, insieme al corpo, cominciano a crescere il rifiuto di sé e la vergogna, mentre compagni e insegnanti iniziano a trattarla in modo diverso. Un memoir toccante e acuto che racconta la stigmatizzazione del corpo, il superamento del lutto e la ricerca di un nuovo inizio.

'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017, there was a sentencing hearing for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. The young woman in the dock, who sat quietly with her hands in her lap, had perfect skin and light-brown hair tied back as neatly as a private school prefect's. When the judge asked her to confirm her plea, the young woman answered in a clear and polite voice. 'Guilty, Your Honour.' That killer is Mary K. Pershall's beloved daughter, Anna.

Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved – she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.

Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that animate acclaimed poet Ashleigh Young's first collection of essays. In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway yet familiar landscape of New Zealand: fantasizing about Paul McCartney, cheering on her older brother's fledging music career, and yearning for a larger and more creative life.

Discover how to recover from any eating disorder for good using a holistic approach! By the virtue that you are reading this, it means you’ve had enough of the manifestation of eating disorders and want to put an end to the excessive eating, purging, eating strange foods, avoiding certain foods, and much more. This audiobook will teach you everything you need to know about finding freedom from any eating disorder, as it takes a deep and wide approach to the topic to help you find the relief you so much desire.

Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work - first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying.

A university athlete, Jacqueline Alnes’s season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough escalated to a collapse on the track and months of episodes that stole her ability to walk and even speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that led to months in a wheelchair but left doctors mystified. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around two wellness gurus—Queensland’s ‘Durianrider’ and his then-girlfriend ‘Freelee the Banana Girl’.

I nostri demoni possono solo essere domati, mai uccisi. In "Non mi sono mai piaciuta", Valentina Dallari ha raccontato come era arrivata a pesare 37 chili, a non voler più sentire, né vedere, né vivere, e il modo in cui è riuscita a smettere di autodistruggersi. Ma fragilità, rabbia e paura trovano sempre nuove forme, rinascono ogni volta che rinasciamo. Come l'uroboro, il serpente che addenta la propria coda, simbolo antico dell'eterno ritorno: l'inizio e la fine non sono poi così diversi.

Mein Name ist Ina. Im Alter von 16 bis 27 Jahren litt ich an Bulimie. Heute bin ich frei davon. Diesen Teil meines Lebens hatte ich 24 Jahre lang vergessen. Die erste Erinnerung daran stieg unerwartet in mir auf. Kurz vor meinem 50. Geburtstag. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt einen Weg auf, Bulimie hinter sich zu lassen. Es zu schaffen - aus eigener Kraft. Es ist möglich!