A single comment by a girl in gym class changed your world. She said to you: I wish I was normal like you. And it was that day that he started to stop eating. He says anything could have triggered him, and people's obsession with triggers is missing the point. "The thing is not the trigger, it's the emotions and the cause"
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. And for the next decade, the condition would revisit and interrupt her life in numerous ways. In conversation with journalist Bari Weiss and drawing on her new book Good Girls, Freeman recounts her harrowing account of this complex condition.
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