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who is hiding and hurting myself.
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That remains thirty years later,
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one of the most compelling descriptions of
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what these illnesses are like,
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starting with anorexia nervosa
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and developing into what we now call bulimia nervosa.
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It illustrates that this woman,
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though tortured by her obsession and by her behavior,
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is clearly smart, clearly articulate,
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and her thinking is otherwise pretty clear.
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She's not crazy, she's not psychotic,
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and it also illustrates the peculiar ambivalence she feels.