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By Rebecca J. Lester, author of Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
In 2017, America awoke t...
Excerpted from Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. Lester
I came dangerously close to dying from anorexia twice, once when I was eleven years old and again when I was eighteen. I was hospitalized both times for several months and spent years in o...