"There is something quite self punishing in my mentality," she says. "I sort of think about myself as someone who makes life hard for themselves in a lot of ways" She became obsessed with studying, which sounds like a really healthy thing, but she did just sit in her room and stare at her books for 18 hours a day. And then I realized, hey, I don't need these middle men boyfriends,. And then I just became a drug addict myself."
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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