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A journey within the hearts and bodies of those fighting anorexia/bulimia. This book takes readers inside the minds, bodies, and feelings of anorexic patients and tells the stories of those who have successfully fought back from this disease. Through first-person narratives, readers get a rarely seen look inside this disease. Anyone who has suffered from anorexia/bulimia, or who has had a loved one struggle with it, will benefit from the insights in this b… More >>
Biting the Hand That Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia
This is just an awesome book. As a recovering anorexic, i have found this book not only hopeful and inspiring, but helpful and fascinating. It has made me think of my eating disorder in a whole new way. Instead of talking about afflicted people as “sick,” it refers to “insiders” and discusses a way of thinking where one views their disorder as separate from themself, rather than who they are. It’s fascinating and i highly reccommend it for people suffering from an eating disorder, those who are recovered, friends and family of sufferers, and just anyone who has an interest. great!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is an exceptionally well written book which serves as an excellent resource for those seeking recovery or for anyone trying to better understand what it’s like to battle an eating disorder.
Rating: 5 / 5
Biting the Hand that Starves You is a very special book that it likely to change the way you view eating disorders. It contains many first hand accounts of women’s struggles to free themselves from the ways bulimia and anorexia control their lives. And it maps out the nature of this control, which is beyond the attempt to control food and weight–it’s tied to societial messages about how women should behave (take care of others, be nice to everyone, perform well in many arenas, etc.). The book is primarily written for therapists but will be helpful to others affected by bulimia and anorexia.
Rating: 5 / 5
As someone who has struggled with anorexia for over half my life, I have often found myself reading anything on anorexia I could lay my hands on; desperately searching for the reassurance that comes from knowing one is not alone in one’s experiences, as well as for some elusive insight that might assist me in resisting anorexia’s stranglehold over my life. Yet frequently I have come away from such reading feeling dissatisfied and disheartened. Not so with ‘Biting the Hand that Starves You’; in this book I found so much of what I had been searching for and a whole lot more.
While the authors are not the first professionals to draw on `insider knowledges’ (the knowledges of people with first-hand experiences of anorexia/bulimia), the prominence and the respect accorded to such knowledges is unprecedented. The result is a book that speaks compellingly of anorexia/bulimia, and crucially, does so in a manner that is never patronising, pathologising or didactical.
Providing exciting new ways of thinking and speaking about anorexia/bulimia, the book engenders a sense of hope – a ‘commodity’ that is often desperately lacking, yet so vital when it comes to resisting anorexia/bulimia.
I highly recommend the book to all readers, from those struggling with anorexia/bulimia, to their family and friends, and health professionals.
Rating: 5 / 5
I liked that the book doesn’t discriminate against eating disorder patients. It doesn’t blame the patient for the problem.
This book scared me and exposed anorexia as something outside myself and as an out of body voice that has influenced my thoughts since childhood.
Rating: 5 / 5