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1) Bulimia
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Examines the basic concepts of bulimia through the lens of the latest scientific studies and finding. Provides tools for evaluating conflicting and ever changing ideas.
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Constantly in the spotlight thanks to her politician father's rising star, Olivia Blakely feels the pressure to be perfect. As the youngest girl in her class, she tries hard to keep up and to seem mature to the older boy she's crushing on, even as she catches his eye. But the need to look good on camera and at school soon grows into an all-consuming struggle with bulimia.
3) Perfect
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Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own
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While we often think of eating disorders in their physical sense, they are serious mental illnesses. The sooner someone gets the treatment he or she needs, the better the chance of a good recovery. It is important that we talk about these deadly disorders, and that teens have sources of helpful information. Author Elizabeth Silverthorne provides young readers and researchers a means of understanding these ailments and their ramifications. Readers...
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"If you have a teen with an eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia or binge eating, you may feel powerless, worried or uncertain about how you can best support them on the road to recovery. Grounded in evidence-based strategies, this book will help give you the confidence you need to help your teen make healthy choices and heal in body and mind."--Back cover.
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Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. The author shares her lifelong battle...
7) Believarexic
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An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.
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