Nourished Again: Anorexia Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe anorexia nervosa from before it had a name — the diet that was praised, the control that felt like competence, the coach or the comment that lit the fuse — through being seen and diagnosed, often late and often by someone who almost missed it. Writers describe the daily mechanics of treatment: meal plans and supported eating, refeeding and its physical shock, the therapy that finally caught, and the family sessions that were harder than any of it. There are the harder rooms of inpatient and day-patient care, nasogastric feeding, and involuntary treatment described honestly from both sides. Writers include men, midlife patients, athletes and people with atypical anorexia who were told they were not thin enough to be ill, alongside the carers who held the chair, and the recoveries that did not hold.

Who it's for

For people in recovery from anorexia at any stage, the families sitting through meals with them, and clinicians who want to hear which interventions patients say actually landed.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 283 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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