Tender Rock Counseling selects a handful of website links, articles and books about Eating Disorders (Anorexia and Bulimia) for viewers who are interested in looking for useful resources. Tender Rock Counseling’s practitioners also will, from time to time, share their thoughts here in the areas of their specialties. We hope it is helpful to you and like to hear your feedback:
Links
- What are Eating Disorders? ~National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Books
- Aimee Liu (2007). Gaining: The truth about life after eating disorders, 1st Edition. New York, NY. Warner Books.
Comment : This book is about Aimee’s personal journey in the context of eating disorder. “Candidly recalling her own struggles, triumphs, and defects. Aimee explores an array of promising and innovative new treatments offer vital insights to anyone who has e even had an eating disorder, and shows parents how to help protect their children from even developing one.” We think that perhaps readers may be benefited to learn more about eating disorders through Aimee’s personal journey.
- Marya Hornbacher (1998). Wasted: A memoir of anorexia & bullimia, 1st edition. New York, NY. HarperCollins Books.
Comment : One of the book comments said it all why we recommend the book, “Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor ad flesh is weak? Why enter a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex and death? Marya Horbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five length hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be “normal.” By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. In the vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-creates the experiences and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman’s travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back –on her own terms.”