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The Long Road Back: A Survivor's Guide to Anorexia (Hardcover)

by Judy Tam Sargent (Author), Sonia Nordenson (Contributor)
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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: North Star Publications (MA) (Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1880823195
  • ISBN-13: 978-1880823194
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,096,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A hopeful & uplifting journey through the recovery process.
"The Long Road Back: A Survivor's Guide to Anorexia," is an autobiographical account of my ten-year battle with anorexia nervosa. I wrote the book with the hope that it would give individuals currently suffering from anorexia (and other eating disorders) insight, courage, and hope. An eating disorder need not be a life sentence. People do recover and go on to lead happy, healthy, full lives. In my account, I've shared words of wisdom and details of my own recovery process with the hope that others may benefit from my insight.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful gift of hope !!!!!!!, 11 Jun 1999
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When I finished Judy's book, I cried with "JOY" as eleven years ago, she was my neighbor during the depths of her illness. Her courage and desire to share her gift of hope are admirable; and I'm confident that her willingness to openly detail "her path to recovery" will benefit many. It should be required reading for those with this dreadful disease and those who are professionally caring for them. BRAVO to JUDY!!!!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Judi's account of her struggle to recovery was very moving!, 24 May 1999
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The book was amazing. I couldn't put it down! Judy's bravery to overcome her terrible struggle with her eating disorder is astounding. Then to take it a step further and write this wonderful book, so that others might benefit and overcome their own, leaves me speechless. I give thanks to her mother for sharing with other parents her wisdom found throughout her daughter's illness. This is a rare gift indeed. Judy, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving hope to parents like myself, who have a daughter still caught in the throes of this illness. I am eternally grateful!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Map of One Journey Back from Anorexia!!!, 20 May 1999
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Sargent herself identifies the key to the story of her struggle against anorexia: "Probably the most important turning point in my recovery was my decision to become an active participant in the process." The truth in this proactive perspective of personal responsibility is all the more intensified by a history of being subjected to unenlightened hospitalizations that seemed bent on robbing her of all dignity as the means to a purely mechanical process of weight restoration. Without excusing the cruelty and destructiveness of those treatment programs, Sargent's description of her descent into the hell of anorexia makes it clear that the worst abuse she suffered came from the torment of the eating disorder itself, that the toughest struggle was not against the medical system but against the suffocating embrace of the python anorexia. I found myself regretting not having been at the meeting just before her college graduation where, finally gaining freedom from the negativity and shame of her past, she proclaims, "Just remember that you have the ability to achieve anything you set your mind to."

Like a well-rounded, nutritious meal, Sargent supplements her personal account with tender poems written by her sister, a message from her mother, and an appendix stocked with astute practical advice on dealing with eating disorders. She dreams of directing profits from the sale of this book toward the founding of an eating disorder treatment center. If I had the means, I would put this book in every high school and college library, as much to aid her quest as to make her wisdom as broadly accessible as possible.

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