Read the true story of how Kath found a new support structure, prevailed over her eating disorder, and created a new & healthy life, with the support of a therapist who loved the sufferer but hated the condition, a husband who loved the woman but resisted her ‘voices’, family and friends who rallied when they finally discovered the truth about her, and an indomitable will to recover and live a full life.
In this intensely personal and moving account of one woman’s struggle with a serious eating disorder:
• see into the heart of the disorder as Kath uncovers the voices, delusions and irrationalities that trick an intelligent sufferer into abdicating self-control
• learn that anorexia is not really about eating, but underlying issues of control and power
• discover how to support a sufferer (forced feeding is not the way!)
• encounter the potential risks of forced hospitalisation
• learn how to find a therapist who can actively help a sufferer towards re-feeding
• understand that eating disorders constitute a major illness and are not a petulant refusal to ‘just put food in your mouth’!
In a world obsessed about losing weight, hear how hard it can be to put on weight.
This is a book for sufferers as much as the people who care about them.
