The Long Road Back, A Survivors Guide to Anorexia

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Summary: The awful pain of anorexia
Review: As an anorexic of several years, I was deeply affected by this book's account of another's suffering with the same disease. I alternately cried and was filled with anger by the descriptions of the often barbaric "treatments" the author was forced to endure. I have been in such treatment centers, where the people who are supposed to be helping instead make patients feel less than human, by watching them eat as if it were a circus sideshow and referring to them by numbers instead of names. These people think that the only thing an anorexic has to do to get better is to eat and gain weight, and that's it. Wrong, wrong, wrong, as this book shows, and it's high time people started realizing it. No one starves herself to make someone else suffer, or as a way of getting what she wants. Anorexia is a terrible, terrible disease that makes you want to just die. If you know someone who's suffering from this hell of a disease, treat that person with the utmost love, respect and compassion. Read this book to help you understand: No one CHOOSES to be anorexic, and no matter how many times the anorexic says, "Leave me alone, I'm fine," she really does want help, deep down. It just has to be the right kind of help.

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Summary: A Testament to The Ultimate Human Fighting Spirit
Review: For some one who has experienced an eating disorder first hand, this is one of the most accurate portrayals that I have come across. In the book, Sargent tells about her struggles with therapists and hospitals. I found this to be more than true. This is an amazing book for any one, especially health care providers for those with eating disorders. I would reccommend it to every one.

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Summary: The Long Road Back
Review: For some one who has experienced an eating disorder first hand, this is one of the most accurate portrayals that I have come across. In the book, Sargent tells about her struggles with therapists and hospitals. I found this to be more than true. This is an amazing book for any one, especially health care providers for those with eating disorders. I would reccommend it to every one.

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Summary: Insightful and comprehensive look at anorexia
Review: Sargent writes a passionate account of her battle with anorexia. She comes forth shining and gives others the hope that sustained her through her 'dark night of the soul'. She is truly an inspiration for anyone suffering with any eating disorder, compulsive eating included. A beautifully written and carefully detailed book.

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Summary: Huge Disappointment
Review: The title of this book should have been "The bad things doctors did to me while I was in the hospital." While going into explicit detail of her experience at several different treatment centers, she glosses over her recovery - the main thing her book is supposed to address.

I have read several books on the subject of anorexia, and I found this book to be the worst I have ever come accross. A complete waste of time and money.

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Summary: A Testament to The Ultimate Human Fighting Spirit
Review: This book is not just for current or past anorexic, but for everyone who has some serious setbacks in their lives. It is a true testament to the ultimate human fighting spirit. As far as anorexia is concerned, I find this book a real eye-opener to the many flaws of the mental health system where the doctors and nurses seem to be just as obessed with the patients gaining the weight, as the patients with losing it. I could not put this book down oce I started reading it. It left me wondering how Ms(?) Sargent is still alive today. It is even more amazing that not only she is leading a normal life, but she is only excelling in her career and her true passion of figure skating. It is a matter of time unil this gem is made into a movie.