Product Description
A concise account of the insight into the life of a victim of anorexia and their supporting family. The book aims to provide some understanding on the entire heart ache and torment for the anorexic’s family. It also enlightens people to the twisted, yet frustrated turmoil of the thoughts and emotions of the anorexic’s muddled brain.
Looking back over those frustrating years it is hard to accept that something that most people find enjoyable, sociable as well as being essential for the survival of the human well-being could be so traumatic to an individual. The restrictions that an individual inflicts upon themselves, not only affects their own well-being but the interactions of social behaviour in almost all aspects of their life.
This can be associated with family voids for those families eating together at meal times, to family meal social events. It does not stop there, but has a knock on effect with all those individuals that surround you through every day life such as school, work and university. As the anorexic becomes more obsessed with their eating disorder, the quicker the rumours begin to spread about how the individual is not eating as much as normal. Those individuals dearest to the individual begin to observe the change in mood swings, the constant self distraction, vagueness and self isolation of the anorexic from the environment. The comments or murmurs about weight loss, which are all too true, the anorexic chooses to ignore.
I would hope that this account will provide some encouragement for all concerned, both the anorexic and all of the individuals associated with the anorexic. Hopefully, it will prove that with some determination, positive attitude and self belief from the individual anorexic, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I almost feel terribly embarrassed to share with others this explicit account, to the extent that I have thought on several occasions as to whether I should include all of the very explanatory text that I have done in this account of my journey through anorexia. However, I have included all of the graphic details on everything that I did during those terrible years, as I feel that only a true understanding of inside an anorexic’s head can be achieved in this way.
Looking back over those frustrating years it is hard to accept that something that most people find enjoyable, sociable as well as being essential for the survival of the human well-being could be so traumatic to an individual. The restrictions that an individual inflicts upon themselves, not only affects their own well-being but the interactions of social behaviour in almost all aspects of their life.
This can be associated with family voids for those families eating together at meal times, to family meal social events. It does not stop there, but has a knock on effect with all those individuals that surround you through every day life such as school, work and university. As the anorexic becomes more obsessed with their eating disorder, the quicker the rumours begin to spread about how the individual is not eating as much as normal. Those individuals dearest to the individual begin to observe the change in mood swings, the constant self distraction, vagueness and self isolation of the anorexic from the environment. The comments or murmurs about weight loss, which are all too true, the anorexic chooses to ignore.
I would hope that this account will provide some encouragement for all concerned, both the anorexic and all of the individuals associated with the anorexic. Hopefully, it will prove that with some determination, positive attitude and self belief from the individual anorexic, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I almost feel terribly embarrassed to share with others this explicit account, to the extent that I have thought on several occasions as to whether I should include all of the very explanatory text that I have done in this account of my journey through anorexia. However, I have included all of the graphic details on everything that I did during those terrible years, as I feel that only a true understanding of inside an anorexic’s head can be achieved in this way.
