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Conquering Anorexia: The Route to Recovery

BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0107256a (Published 01 July 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:0107256a
  1. Rhona MacDonald1
  1. 1BMJ

If you are in any doubt that eating disorders are serious physical and psychiatric Illnesses - as opposed to the “selfish” fads of “silly” teenagers - then read this book. It is written by a former sufferer of anorexia nervosa, and I use the word “sufferer” in its true sense. Anyone who can write the following is definitely undergoing some sort of mental torture: “My life was a nightmare. If I wasn't starving, I was making myself sick. If I wasn't doing that, …

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