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Parents, husbands, wives, partners, friends, physicians and medical personal caring for anorexics, you must oppose the voice of self-hate that the victims of anorexia are living with every minute ...

Anorexics Battle with Self-Hate

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From my other articles, it might appear that Meg was our only concern when we came back to Virginia from Hawaii. Yet once we helped her settle into college, we were busy moving in and settling ...

Pain, Pain, Pain

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During our first meal together that summer, it was evident: something had changed. After spending all day cooking our favorite meal, home made Italian sauce, meatballs, spaghetti, garlic bread and ...

My First Summer Living With An Anorexic

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People ask why I write about the painful subject of my daughter’s anorexia and eventual death. I’ve explained a few reasons in past articles, but there’s one more. You see I just can’t stand ...

Will Anorexia Nervosa Receive More Funding As the Number Of Male Anorexic Increase?

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Now the story becomes more difficult to tell. Now I’m recalling Meg’s anorexia: the anorexia that starts here but ends seventeen years later. In November of 1990 Meg came home from college for ...

Mary S commented on Mary S's post You Can Be Too Rich and Too Thin

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Now the story becomes more difficult to tell. Now I’m recalling Meg’s anorexia: the anorexia that starts here but ends seventeen years later. In November of 1990 Meg came home from college for ...

You Can Be Too Rich and Too Thin

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Change was coming again, and I had a good feeling about our next move. This only proves that my powers as family prophet were dwindling. Meg remained silent as we drove to the airport to say ...

Don’t Gain the Freshman Fifteen. Worse Things Can Happen: Anorexia.

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As often happens when you believe your life couldn’t get any worse and it will stay that way forever, life, without warning, changes for the better. And remarkably, this improvement in Meg’s life ...

A Best Friend and Healthy Lifestyle Lift Meg’s Depression

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It was not surprising that Meg, over weight and friendless in Hawaii, suffered from the most harmful cruelty of all: the cruelty from her peers. Immediately Meg’s grades began to plummet. When she ...

Could Being Overweight and Depressed Lead to Anorexia

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It was strangely comforting to write about Meg as my funny, independent little girl. And now I’m beginning to see another reason for writing about my daughter: to reveal her as authentic human ...

Mary S: Prelude to Meg's Anorexia Continued

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Prelude to Meg’s Anorexia As Meg’s mother, I’d like to tell my version of her story not only for the people who might be helped by reading it but also for myself. By putting my thoughts down ...

Prelude to Meg's Anorexia

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I would like to start with something I wrote in the program for Erin's memorial service to put her life in some context. A Mother’s Tribute Our Erin was a happy, easy baby always smiling. ...

A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Battle With Anorexia

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I would like to start with something I wrote in the program for Erin's memorial service to put her life in some context. A Mother’s Tribute Our Erin was a happy, easy baby always smiling. ...

I'd like to tell my daughter Erin's story. She died a year and a half ago from anorexia.