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INTRODUCTION IN REVIEW

As I reviewed my words in the introduction I am aware of its simplicity and have been asked why I did not expand on the disease or painful journal entries? A very simple response: a sufferer knows all too well the pain and need not be reminded.

I also have a personal view that sharing too many details on the disease can actually have damaging effects to the reader. Rather than help, it can actually encourage the disease by providing details of how you continued your behaviour. Sufferers will do anything to hold on to the disease, and at all times, on the hunt for any new trick that could possibly improve the end result.

How can that be?

An eating disorder sufferer’s mind is much different than that of a non-sufferer. A non-sufferer may believe that to read the behaviour in detail would be a deterrent to starting the behaviour. Ironically for the sufferer, it enhances it. I know how the mind of an eating disorder sufferer works, thus details are left to a minimum. This book is about recovery from the disease, not the disease itself.