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Wasted

: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important, and perhaps controversial, new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher’s highly acclaimed memoir that chronicl

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“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Anorexia, Touched

“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in anoth…”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Self-Image, Self Boundaries, Relationships, distance between your loved ones