Reviews with content warning for Eating disorder - Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

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el_viral's review against another edition

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4.0

Although some elements have clearly been embellished - who remembers exactly their parents' relationship and how they felt at age 9, this must be extrapolated - overall it is a harrowing and moving account of an illness, and far beyond what one would necessarily expect from a 23-year-old. Hornbacher's writing is accomplished, and she very much draws you in to the narrative. As a person with mental health issues myself, although not an ED, I could see some of my own issues ref ecting back on me. As she herself said, there is no satisfactory ending, because there can't be for something like this, the end describing the balancing act needed while striving for a life is poignant. Overall a very good, if challenging read.

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skaterhick25's review against another edition

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3.0

This book gave me lots of mixed emotions. There are some MAJOR triggers in this and had I read this before I was recovering from my own mental health issues, I know it would of been used as a how-to guide. I appreciate the raw honesty in the book but it also felt a little like she was bragging at times. Still overall it was powerful and I remember feeling lots of these same emotions as a young adolesent/adult too.

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4.0

This was a graphic, first person, experience of livin with an eating disorder. As the reader, you get to witness the obsessive and addictive thoughts and behaviours around the auther's eating disorder throughout her life starting from very young. I felt a bit hopeless about her ever recovering from her condition because she just kept putting her body through hell no matter how bad it got. But there is a moment of victory in her life where her defiance to die brought her back from the brink of death - and that is where the hope lies in her story.

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