Hadley: I used to use some of those comments in a way as an excuse to not put on weight. But at a certain point, I realized I had to stop listening to the anorexic voice inside my head. You have to learn to blinker things and tune things out - that's just the truth. obesity is still a bigger problem in the world than anorexia. That's why calorie counts are there. And you can't expect the world to remake itself for an eating disorders' ease of mind.
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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