Marc A. Zimmer

N. R. Mitgang

Ira M. Sacker

An informative and dramatic story about one woman and her lifelong battle with eating disorders.

The Mirror Lied

Bad Girl Bex

Just...mental. Totally insane. I don't mean for that to sound disrespectful to the woman this book is about, but it's just a whole different kind of crazy to anything I have any experience with. I've had a full blown nervous breakdown; a psychotic break complete with audio & visual hallucinations...but this book described the kind of reality I can't even begin to comprehend. This woman absolutely tortured herself. She endured a helluva lot of bad stuff that obviously led to her 25 year battle with various forms of self-harm, but I think at the end she made it out okay. Hard to know, because she had about 13 years in-between her first round of in-patient treatment for disordered eating and the second; and I think this book is about 15 years old. So for all we know she may have relapsed at some point. But wherever she is, I really hope that both her and her absolute star of a husband are doing well. They definitely deserve some peacefully, uneventful years to grow old together.

The Mirror Lied

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