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Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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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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“It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo. To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Bodies, Mind body dualism, Mental Health, Control

“We grew up with the impression that underneath all this normal flesh, buried deep in the excessive recesses of our healthy bodies, there was a Perfect Body just waiting to break out. It would look exactly like everyone else's perfect body.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Bodies, Mind body dualism, the perfect body, Body Image

“There are women in my closet, hanging on my hangers, a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Fashion, Clothes

“Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be all right. I learned very early to choose my lines c…”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Bodies, Mind body dualism, character

“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others get eating disorders.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: eating disorders, Chefs, food

“An eating disorder is in many ways a rather logical elaboration on a cultural idea.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: eating disorders

“An eating disorder is in many ways a rather logical elaboration on a cultural idea.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: eating disorders

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Reliance

“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: Dislike, Touch, Longing

“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Independence, Wise Words, Acceptance

“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: Sadness, Deep Feelings, Sad Lyrics

“When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort t…”

— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-hatred, Death, Suicide