A memoir interspersed with diary entries, this book spans twenty years. Martha M. is devastated by her parents’ divorce. She starts throwing up her food at age thirteen. When she reaches twenty-six she realises that, if she doesn’t stop now, the ‘well’ part of her life will become a fraction. She starts watching others’ eating patterns to work out a normal relationship to food.
This book contains one chapter of selected diary entries. This story, of treatment for EDNOS (Eating Disorder Otherwise Not Specified), is not told in linear time. It includes therapy notes, treatment exercises, and the centre’s rules and regulations. At the age of twenty-three, after nine years of illness, Nicole Johns checks herself into a treatment facility where she spends three months. The author happens to be bisexual, which she barely mentions in the text. She does not consider it an issue nor does she relate her sexuality to her eating disorder.