She interviews doctors to learn how treatment for the illness has changed since she was hospitalized and what new discoveries have been made about the illness, including its connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting, Freeman delivers an incisive and bracing work that details her experiences with anorexia-the shame, fear, loneliness and rage-and how she overcame it. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a "functioning anorexic," grappling with new forms of self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted.Īnorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what recovery looked like. So why am I crazier than I was before "įrom the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: "I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery.
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