Hidden Harm and Hope in Eating Disorder Recovery Memoirs
Briefly

"That memoir made me think I had failed at my eating disorder because they could go without food longer than I could. I learned new tricks—basically how to get better at my eating disorder. I got triggered by it."
"Throughout my 17+ years as an eating disorders therapist, I have often heard these kinds of comments from patients/clients who had read eating disorder recovery stories. So when people ask if they 'should' read them, I usually stress the 'at your own risk' element and explain why."
"Though I am not a mind reader, I'm quite sure that most-to-all authors of memoirs don't intend for their recovery memoirs to negatively trigger readers with eating disorders. Yet they often do. So there's been a conundrum."
"A recent study gets us all closer to determining if and how memoirs can be, at the very least, not harmful. If no harm is found, it would go to press. If harm were found, it would be considered a project for her own benefit but not for public consumption."
Read at Psychology Today
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