With more and more women bowing to personal and social pressures to be thin, there has never been as appropriate or necessary a lifeline as this book. Provides an articulate insight into the traumatic self punishment of anorexia, reassurance for sufferers and their families in similar experiences and support, and offers advice on steps to overcome the emotional and physical problems of living with this illness. Diary entries provide a moving insight into the inner demons in the mind of an anorectic. Assistance on how to overcome the illness from someone who knows what it is like. Contains techniques of self examination and confidence building exercises acquired from experts.