The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia

by Peggy Claude-Pierre

Book Overview

"A provacative new analysis" (Newsweek) that offers a true path to healing eating disorders. In this approachable look at the complex topic of eating disorders, Peggy Claude-Pierre examines the common... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375750185
• ISBN13: 9780733800542
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

THE ONLY BOOK THAT HELPED US

After reading hundreds of books and searching desperately for help this was the only book that offered any hope for my 11 year old daughter. We followed the other recommendations, found a nutritionalist, went to our medical doctor every two weeks to have them tell my daugther how bad this disorder was for her, but it wasn't until we followed Peggy's advice for "taking the responsibility of food out of her hands" that she stopped losing weight. She has been at a constant weight now for 2 years and we are hopeful that she will be able to move on past this disorder. Many of the other books tell you that the anorexic will always be anorexic, only this one gives you hope and helps you fulfull that dream. Don't buy any other books until you have read this one. I'm a scientist too and have read the reviews about how Peggy's methods aren't scientific...get real her methods work!!! The other don't.

The best book on eating disorders around

This book is the first one to properly explain what I went through six years ago. What it describes is real - the constant fighting with oneself, selfhate, and so on. I was also told I would never get well. I got well anyway, on my own. I am just so grateful to Peggy Claude-Pierre to have made it clear that I was not insane (as many would tell me) during those painful years. I was "just" bulimic. With her book, my healing process is complete.

I opened my eyes and so did others

I'm 19 and have been suffering for 8 years. As I got older it grew worse. When I left school I was almost ready to die. Through some way I recieved a photocopy of this book. How I feel about this book, I dont know, but without it I think I could be dead. I never thought anyone could understand, or imagine what went on in my head. Fighting constantly with myself. This book has helped me realise when I am fighting with myself. Thankyou. I have this love for Peggy for sharing her beliefs on this subject, it did not just help me but my family and close friends.

This book has given me life

I can honestly say that until I read "The Secret Language of Eatting Disorders" I belived I was going to die. I thought eatting disorders were about control, wanting to stay young, perfectionism and madness. This book has cleared up all of those (and many other) misconceptions. Peggy put into words all of my thoughts, feelings and fears. I have had anorexia/bulimia for 10 years. I am now 19 years old and I had always been told that this was a condition that I would have to learn to live with. Thank you Peggy for telling me what bull that is. No one has to live like that. I only pray that more therapists and parents read this book. The girls of generation X are dying as a result of health care professionals paying too much attention to the disease and not enough attention to the problem. Thank you Peggy, you have saved my life.

Now finally someone has said what we have kept inside...

I am a 15 year old that has suffered for anorexia for more than a year. It has been sheer hell. Nothing in my life is comparable to the mental pain I go through because of anorexia. I have read all of the literature available on Eating Disorders. By the time I read this book, I was out of ideas. I was not looking for control, I was not trying to stay young, and finally Peggy's book came along.Thank you Peggy so much for writing this book. Finally someone understand's the world we live in! I was speaking with the eating disorders group I am in, and I mentioned "the voice." They all exclaimed "I thought I was the only one!!" Other books on eating disorders tend to put them into small boxes: There that is an eating disorder. Perfection, control, staying young, etc. This shows how we are living how we see ourselves what we need to do to get better! If there is any problem with treatment today, it is that we focus too much on how we got anorexia rather than uses to get better. Thank you Peggy. You are truly an angel on earth. Your book just might be my tiny light at the end of the tunnel.