In the dark ages of the 1950s, I narrowly escaped death from an undiagnosed disease now known as the most lethal of all mental illnesses, anorexia nervosa. I was fifteen, exiled from my family, and blamed for my illness. It is tragic that in the so-called enlightened 21st century, a young Australian girl recently lost her life to this still […]
How Writing helped Me Survive. It is only recently that scientists have discovered that anorexia nervosa is genetic, not, as presented in the popular media, a life choice. Nevertheless sufferers are often still blamed for bringing the illness on themselves, compassion goes to the patients’ families, rather than to the sufferer herself. My work-in-progress, A Dangerous Daughter, is a […]
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