Diary of an Anorexic Girl

Author: Morgan Menzie
Publisher: Tommy Nelson
ISBN: 1418514926
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs and tragedies all unfold together in this beautiful story of God's grace. Features include: daily eating schedule, journal entries, prayers to God, poems, and what she wished she knew at the time. It's the true story of victory over a disease that is killing America's youth.

Stick Figure

Author: Lori Gottlieb
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684863588
Category : Anorexia nervosa
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted. Stick Figure" has been option for film by Martin Scorsese's De Fina/Cappa Productions.

Catherine

Author: Maureen Dunbar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140373981
Category : Anorexia nervosa
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description

Raw Uncut

Author: Lydia Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781792968372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
When Lydia was diagnosed with anorexia aged 19, it wasn't just half her body weight that she ended up losing. Her boyfriend, best friend, degree and identity were forced out of her life by the illness. Then she came close to losing life itself. With devastating honesty, Lydia exposes what it's like to live through anorexia nervosa, bulimia, alcoholism, addiction and depression. A terrifying journey through darkness, ending with the discovery of a life filled with more light than she ever knew existed. Lydia hopes her true story of trauma, struggle, recovery and healing will prove to others that there is still hope in their suffering. She now dedicates her life to spreading awareness and helping people through their own struggles through yoga. The proceeds from this book go directly towards these endeavours.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316219304
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Thin

Author: Grace Bowman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141905573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Bright, popular, pretty and successful, Grace Bowman had the world at her feet. So what drove her to starve herself nearly to death at the age of 18? And what, more importantly, made her stop? A grippingly honest account of life with anorexia nervosa, A Shape of My Own is Grace's hearbreaking, shocking and, finally, inspirational memoir. An extraordinary story, it is also a common one - is there a woman in the western world who has a normal relationship with food? A compulsive read, essential for anyone hoping to understand more about eating disorders and overcoming addiction.

Slim to None

Author: Jennifer Hendricks
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071433716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
"A young woman's fatal battle with anorexia, in her own words In the tradition of Go Ask Alice, Prozac Nation, and Girl Interrupted, Slim to None grants readers precious access to the emotional and psychological underpinnings of its author. Step-by-step, readers follow Jenny's long journey through a "wasteland" of failed treatments and therapies, false hope, and abuse by the mental health system that kept her captive most of her life. Although this disease has been at the forefront of public awareness for years, anorexia continues to claim more victims than any other mental illness. Slim to None reveals the glaring inadequacy of the mental health system to treat and fully understand this disease. The first journal of an anorexic to be published posthumously, the book discloses the innermost thoughts, fears, and hopes of a young girl stricken and fighting to recover. Jenny Hendricks painstakingly recorded her experiences as she suffered from and eventually succumbed to this eating disorder. With candor, she recounts being shipped from one doctor to another and subjected to widely varying treatments--all of which ultimately proved unsuccessful. Her father, Gordon Hendricks, fills in this compelling narrative with his own memories of his daughter's struggle."--Publisher's description.

Biting Anorexia

Author: Lucy Howard-Taylor
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1572247029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
... A graphic yet poetic insight into the pain and suffering experienced by sufferers of eating disorders.

Elena Vanishing

Author: Elena Dunkle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145213068X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder.

The Anorexia Diaries

Author: Linda Rio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405021005
Category : Anorexia nervosa
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
Compiled from real life diaries kept by a mother and daughter, this moving book shows how one family faced up to and overcame teenage depression and eating disorders. Full of insight into specific problems, the book also illuminates the general difficulties of mother-daughter communication and the years of teenage crisis. Self-help sections for mothers and teenage girls and a chapter of professional advice complete this helpful book.