The Mirror Lied: One woman's 25-year struggle with bulimia, anorexia, diet pill addiction, laxative abuse and cutting.

I decided to read this book to know more about food disorders from the perspective of a person that struggled with them. The book cover this and gives much more to the reader: explain through the characters that people that suffer from food disorders have a personality profile, that they are people that have struggled a lot in their personal lives, that many of them think it is normal until a certain point to have the problem, that a lot of them are in denial of their problem and a thing that I did not know: a person can have more than one kind of food disorders at a time.I absolutely recommend. Sad, but very real and humane.

As a chronic sufferer of eating disorders myself, I don't have much interest in reading ED memoirs written by teens or twenty-somethings who have only experienced a couple years of this struggle. I don't really read many ED books anymroe, but If I am going to read another person's story, I prefer something I can relate to more .... I've been in and out of hospitals since I was a teen as well, but I'm now in my forties, so this has taken up most of my life. I did enjoy reading this book being that the author was also near my age. I found it refreshing in that sense. And it was decently written. Glad I bought it.

Fantastic informative book - well recommended without a shadow of a doubt

I didn't like this book. Of course i respect this woman and her struggle. But the writing was too dull for me. It held allmost no details about anything. It was just telling events, not describing them. But then, of course this is not a novel, so i shouldnt really blame the way it is written.It was long since i read it, so i dont remember what was good about it, except that it was not triggering. That is allways good when it comes to books about eating disorders.

It was a gift, and I have heard great reviews from the individual reading it. I read the book on Kindle before purchasing it in paperback. The paperback version is priced a bit high, but if it can possible provide assistance to someone you love it's worth it. I would have never thought it would be a book to keep me captivated. It allowed me to understand Eating Disorders (ED).