What anorexics most desire but seldom possess. In an attempt to create some security and structure in an unstable world, anorexics moderate the only aspect of their lives they think they have control over--food .In the novel by Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia, A Mother takes us on a journey of how her and her family had to deal with their loved one being an anorexic. Kitty was a very versatile polymathic student and daughter, who was too smart to make a mistake like become anorexic. This family visits hospitals, institutions, and therapy sessions, just to help Kitty overcome this sickness. This family is experiencing a nightmare, that seems to won’t go away. Many sacrifices are made to help Kitty. Kitty is a
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She has my daughter on a gurney, sweatshirt off, hooked up to the EKG machine, within minutes. Kitty trembles in the hospital air-conditioning , goose bumps rising along arms so thin they look like Popsicle sticks. She clutches my hand, the sharp bones of her fingers leaving bruises, as the nurse applies goo and deftly arranges the sensors across her chest.”
“Don’t leave me,” she says, and I promise. They’ll have to handcuff me to get out of the room this time.”
Kitty’s mother also took her to tour an institution that can help her with the eating disorder, but they felt that Kitty being away wouldn’t help Kitty condition.
Kitty’s Mother and Father wondered what made her become anorexic. Her Mother became more interested about the topic anorexia, so she started reading books so she can know how to help her daughter, Kitty. She also visited this group for teens with eating disorders and she met two girls and they describe why they became anorexic.
“What’s it really like?” I ask. “What does it feel like?”
“Sarah swings one foot, considering. “It’s like having an angel sitting on one shoulder and a devil sitting on the other shoulder,” she says
She has my daughter on a gurney, sweatshirt off, hooked up to the EKG machine, within minutes. Kitty trembles in the hospital air-conditioning , goose bumps rising along arms so thin they look like Popsicle sticks. She clutches my hand, the sharp bones of her fingers leaving bruises, as the nurse applies goo and deftly arranges the sensors across her chest.”
“Don’t leave me,” she says, and I promise. They’ll have to handcuff me to get out of the room this time.”
Kitty’s mother also took her to tour an institution that can help her with the eating disorder, but they felt that Kitty being away wouldn’t help Kitty condition.
Kitty’s Mother and Father wondered what made her become anorexic. Her Mother became more interested about the topic anorexia, so she started reading books so she can know how to help her daughter, Kitty. She also visited this group for teens with eating disorders and she met two girls and they describe why they became anorexic.
“What’s it really like?” I ask. “What does it feel like?”
“Sarah swings one foot, considering. “It’s like having an angel sitting on one shoulder and a devil sitting on the other shoulder,” she says