![]() ![]() Wasted immediately struck a chord with me - when I first entered treatment, my biggest problem was that I couldn't find the words to express how and why my anorexia had developed and intensified. A friend from treatment recommended that I read Wasted by Marya Hornbacher, which is arguably the most controversial eating disorder memoir to date - it's also one of the first of its kind and Hornbacher penned it at the young age of 23. But, I never thought to read books or memoirs about eating disorders until after my first hospitalization in eighth grade. I distinctly remember Googling how many calories per hour it would burn to sit and read. As my illness intensified, I also began to use reading as a way to distract myself from the gnawing physical hunger that I was fighting to ignore. When I was first diagnosed with anorexia, I was a bookish 12-year-old who found comfort through reading - books had always served as my escape when chaos and anxiety surrounded me. ![]()
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