The stigma surrounding eating disorders is almost as great a curse as the disorders themselves. Certainly the stigma aids and abets the pathology.
Here is an article about the tragedy of one young woman's death due to bulimia -
A Mother’s Loss, a Daughter’s Story
- stuck in the STYLE section of the New York Times! Why not the Health or news section?
Stigma also contributed to Melissa Avrin's death, since no one around her believed how serious the consequences of bulimia could be.
Now Melissa's mother is making a film about her daughter to help fight the stigma.
We all can do our part simply by stopping and changing the language whenever we hear triggering comments or misinformation being spread.
About Aimee
Aimee Liu is the author of GAINING: THE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE AFTER EATING DISORDERS (Warner Books, February, 2007), as well as three novels. GAINING draws on her own struggles with anorexia as well as interviews with more than forty other men and women with histories of anorexia and bulimia.
Books by Aimee Liu
Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives:
Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders
Author: Aimee Liu
coming soon to www.bulimia.comAuthor Aimee Liu has woven together dozens of first-person accounts of recovery to create a break-through roadmap for healing from an eating disorder... read more.
Gaining
Author: Aimee Liu
order online at www.bulimia.comDecades after her initial recovery from anorexia and the publication of her first book, Solitaire, Liu had a relapse, which set her on a new course of self-discovery, read more.
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