eating disorder
This Is What It's Like Being Addicted to Laxatives
Laxative abuse is a common manifestation of eating disorders that we rarely talk about. But with the pills so easy to buy and become addicted to, and increasing numbers of young people using them, it's about time we started.
My Eating Disorder Had Nothing to Do with Barbie or the Media
A lot of people with an eating disorder will find the idea that it's caused by Barbies or supermodels insulting and patronising. It's a mental illness, not a bad case of vanity.
A 20-Year-Old Went to Rehab and Came Home in a Body Bag
A sobering look at America's high-end addiction treatment.
An Excerpt from Sarah Gerard's 'Binary Star'
Read a selection from Sarah Gerard's new, fearless and blunt novel about a young woman struggling with bulimia.
Everyone in Portland Is Gluten Intolerant
And other stories of America's bizarre relationship with food.
Young Diabetics Are Slimming Themselves to Death
It's an incredibly depressing trend and it's happening all over the world.
Crystal Renn
Crystal Renn published a memoir detailing her struggles with anorexia and her transformation from a starving, near-dead straight-size model into a healthy size-12 supermodel.
Thin Chicks
Not all girls that have anorexia or bulimia look like a stick figure with the faintest ghosts of tits. Some of them just look a bit skinny and act kind of squirrelly.
Slimming Down
Anorexia's not as hard as you think, you just have to get on the train. I know because I didn't eat for ten days and I feel great. Not only that, but I lost the weight.
Bulimi-ania!
Bulimia's fucked up. I just spent a week doing it to see what it's like, and I don't understand how those bitches survive.