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Summary: The truth about eating disorders
Review: This is an excellent memoir of the long hard journey through an eating disorder.I am anorexic and see so much of myself in this book.It sheds light why this happens and how tough it is living with an eating disorder and how hard it is going through recovery.The author recalls her childhood and the small things that trigered her disorder.She also goes into the eating rituals that she developed and her hospitalizations.This is great for anyone with an eating disorder or anyone who wants to understand them and the pain that comes along with them.I definitely reccommend this book.
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Summary: So...Real
Review: okay. how can I say this? this book is so real that sometimes, i had to keep this book away from me reading it. It seriously made me gag just thinking about what she was doing to herself and i was making faces while reading her descriptive details of her eating disorder. How can she do something so terrible to her own body and mind for 10 something years?
Read it if you always complain about your weight and body image. All those complains about your thighs and a little chubbiness around your tummy will VANISH within a minute you read this book, soon realizing that you are gorgeous and beautiful as healthy as you are!!
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Summary: Powerful and real
Review: "Wasted," is by far one of the best books I have read. No, not just a good "eating disorder/problem" book, but better than many books on numerous different topics. Marya Hornbacher is an extremely talented writer, and risks letting the reader see into her mind and soul. We see the courage this takes as her story unfolds. Trapped in the world of distorted self-image her whole life, anorexia and bulimia seem to be an answer for Marya. But through damage to her body and mind, numerous hospitalizations, lies, and more hurt, she recognizes eating disorders for the trap they are. As a 14 year old struggling with anorexia and bulimia, I found "Wasted," right on target, no holding back on the part of the author. However, this book can be triggering to people trying to recover from eating disorders, so if you think that buying "Wasted" to help a loved one through recovery is a good idea, hold off the purchase--or better yet, buy a copy for yourself and see what they could be going through.
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Summary: Glamourizing Anna?
Review: As a professional psychotherapist who works primarily with adolescent girls who have eating disorders, I found this work extremely helpful to MY professional understanding of eating disorders. It is exceptionally well written and interesting, providing an enlightening window into the circumstances, thoughts, and emotions of the eating disordered individual. However, I would NOT recommend this book to teens with or without eating disorders. Marya's depiction of the eating disordered individual may be disturbing to concerned adults who do not have eating disorders. But to teens who have eating disorders and/or are vulnerable to them, the book has the potential of being highly triggering. Marya has the potential of becomming a glamourous role model and provides the reader with too much advice in how to succeed at having an eating disorder. Her comments at the end of the book regarding the regrettable life threatening consequences have the potential to be therapeutic. Again, extreme caution is warrented. This material should be reviewed and discussed with parents and/or teachers in structured settings with healthy children. With regard to eating disordered clients a professional opinion and subsequent involvement is urged.
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Summary: worth reading
Review: A very honest, intelligent, and realistic approach to the causes and progression of eating disorders. Great read, I couldn't put it down! I do wish, however, that the author would have delved more into the symbolic/spiritual aspects of eating disorders and the cultural burdens of womanhood. I highly recommend books by Kim Chernin: The Obsession and The Hungry Self
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Summary: Can Do Without...
Review: A nice frank and direct, sometimes touching story, for those of us who are looking to identify with someone with similar disorder, i.e. Anorexia. I found no real insights or deep understandings as for what triggered the disorder or helped her to unleash from it. Nice reading, although not a must.
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Summary: Drop whatever you're doing and read this book
Review: for anyone who's ever had an eating disorder (anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating) or who has one right now: you will relate. it will scare you beyond belief, but you will relate to this book. for friends/family of someone with an eating disorder: you will understand us better. you will know why we reject your help, even though we know we need it. it will help you to get inside the head of the person you are trying to save. seeing pieces of myself in Marya, i was relieved to see that other people feel the same way i do, and that i'm not the only one out there who has thoughts like i have. it's a battle and it always will be - but i found comfort in this book. i couldn't put it down and i've started reading it for the second time.
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Summary: A How To Book For Those Who Want An Eating Disorder
Review: As a psychologist with a hospital based eating disorder treatment facility, I am writing to warn all parents that this book should not be allowed to enter into their homes. This is an instruction manual that galmourizes eating disorders and will give your child that extra motivation to become an anorexic or bulimic. I appreciate what the author tried to do; however, this book is one of the only banned books on our inpatient units due to the damage it has done and continues to do. If your child has this book, PLEASE inquire further. If you thought that por0eating disorder web sites were damaging, then you should be afraid of Wasted! Kathleen Robinson, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
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Review: Wasted is one of the better books on eating disorders I've seen in quite a while, having read it over my mid-winter break while on the trains in San Francisco, it made me cringe and laugh and think and say "oh god, I know this." Certain parts were very vague and scattered, but that is understandable I suppose and she doesn't sound like a 23 year old, she sounds so much older and yet she sounds her age a lot at the same time. During certain moments I became quiet and stunned with the reality of eating disorders all over again, after having been diagnosed with EDNOS a few years back, scared for the lives of the women and men affected by them. Marya's memoir of her eating disorders is disturbing and sometimes far too raw, and at the same time it's the most realistic memoir on eating disorders I've seen yet. Eating disorders plague our world and yet people still think those with eating disorders are vain and trying to be "trendy" and that a simple pill can fix anything (we, unfortunately, live in a drug culture) but eating disorders are a real disease that can infect the mind and may never quite let go even with therapy and medication and support. In some ways it's really quite sad, though. This book, as helpful as it can be, can also destroy. While reading Wasted and after finishing it, I had moments where I would check myself in the mirror, count calories, skip meals and I had to smack myself and stop... and it's so sad that we're all so obsessed with weight and our bodies. Over all, Wasted is a wonderful book, but I would not recommend it for those who are dealing with or have recovered from an eating disorder or for those who are easily swept into things. In some ways, I suppose, Wasted could be considered a trigger for eating disorders. So be forewarned, this book makes desire for being thin rise up within the self and yet it also makes eating disorders easy to reject because of what chaos they can cause to the body.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is an amazing story of a girl/woman's life dealing with so many issues, but mainly focusing on bulimia/anorexia. It does include her problems with alcohol, drugs, and sex a well. I couldn't put it down, and I think that anyone who has ever felt emotional pain (and that's all of us) will get something out of this book. You can't help but love Marya.
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