Anorexia is probably the most widely discussed of mental illnesses, but it's also one of the least understood. It's definitely not about wanting to be thin, it's about wanting to look ill. NRC6 know that Chrissy Tarlington or whoever is a famous supermodel now, you know, eat more than 200 calories a day. Like, they're trying to communicate with that articulating it that they're angry and unhappy.
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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