The best article I've read this early morning is "One spoonful at the Time" written by Harriet Brown on her experience with her anorexic daughter. It personifies anorexia by showing the impact that it has not only on the patient, but on the parents when the anorexic is a child. Money quote:
This was the child who was now terrified by a slice of chocolate cake.
That night, when I checked on her in bed, she mumbled, "Make it go away." I now knew what "it" was. It seemed as if she were possessed by a vicious demon she must appease or suffer the consequences. I pictured its leathery wings and yellow fangs inside her. Each crumb Kitty ate was an act of true bravery, defiance snatched from its curved talons. I've heard women joke, "I could use a little anorexia!" They have no idea.
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