Lizzie spent much of her life between the ages of 14 and 17 in various psychiatric wards. Lizzie: I was only 14 and very emotionally immature, so I had no idea how to lose weight. The anorexia is what was the first sort of experience where I wasn't being a people pleaser," she says.
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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