Happy belated new year, LJ ( Read more... )

Discovered that my position as a gallery intern somehow gives me free access to the academic journals online. So I've now got a ton of PDFs on anorexia to be reading. I've kinda overloaded my brain with information at the moment, I need time to consider it all but I'm sure something will come of it in the end, hopefully something I can put into ( Read more... )

Just finished reading the Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant. I love it, for what it is - a novel about a woman struggling to gain self knowledge. Other reviewers have said it's a coming out novel, a lesbian novel, an anorexia novel. I think all those other themes are just scenery. Which is why I'm face-palming at the amazon reviews which range ( Read more... )

Why is it I don't want to/can't recover completely from my ED? I've been thinking about that today, as it applies at this time of my life. And honestly, It's because living like this doesn't feel too bad. In The Golden Cage ED pioneer Hilda Bruch says that "An anorexic patient cannot be considered outside the danger of relapse unless she has ( Read more... )