| View Larger Image | Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder | Hardcoverby Nadia Shivack (Author), Nadia Shivack (Illustrator)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Ginee Seo Books | | Page Count: | 64 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 24, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 632,714nd |
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Product Description
"Every day, meal by meal, millions of people suffer from eating disorders. I am one of them."Nadia Shivack was fourteen years old when she met Ed, her eating disorder. Sometimes like an alien in her body, sometimes like a lover, Ed was unpredictable and exciting, but ultimately always dangerous and destructive.At an inpatient unit unit of a hospital where she was taken for treatment, Nadia wrote and drew on napkins after meals in order to keep the food in and calm the outrageous voices in her head. These pictures, together with others drawn on notebook paper and a variety of other surfaces, tell an unflinchingly honest story of a woman's lifelong battle with anorexia and bulimia. Raw, brave, and brilliant, Nadia's journey takes readers to the intimate corners of these misunderstood diseases. You will never think about eating disorders in the same way again. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 5 reviews)
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Great book, just understand what you are buying. by L. Wallace (Wasatch Mountains, UT)  5 Stars
April 14, 2009
As someone who owns over a hundred books on eating disorders, I found this particular book to be a great asset to my ever expanding collection. I found this author's honesty and artistic expression very engaging and enlighting as well as truly moving. This book is not a novel in the "expected" sense. It is a story and an creative expression of a brave woman who captures the decent and hell of a destructive and deadly eating disorder. I for one like the fact that this book is so different and individualistic.
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More appropriate as a brochure by D. Muro (CT United States)  1 Stars
June 09, 2008
This book was not clearly described and more aimed at a middle school health class. It i something I would expect to see at a school nurse's office.
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Yuck! Not even really a book. Waste of my money. by Diane Cairns (Chicago, IL) 1 Stars
March 29, 2008
Just not happy. Thought it was a REAL book. Not so much. Pictures drawn with a couple of words.
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Make sure this book is in your library - it can make a difference! by E. Fox (Oregon Coast USA) 5 Stars
January 03, 2008
As a former anorexic/bulimic, I have read a plethora of self-help books on the subject, but none that saw eating disorders from the inside out as this book does. Ironically, it wasn't until I heard back from a young library patron about how this book had comforted her that I realized that it truly is a self-help book and not just a very painful autobiography. The author puts us through at least 60 pages of living hell, and truly, she doesn't overcome her disorder as much as she learns to detatch and distance herself from it - at age 40. What is most refreshing (if anything in this book could be called that) is the humor and the mode of presentation: somewhat like "Amelia gone to Eating Disorder Hell" journals. Her talented and obsessive writing is at times concrete poetry and at other times reminiscent of Dante's Inferno, illuminating the dark corners of this obsession. There are few, if any, books that adequately portray the angst and manage to comfort sufferers: make sure this book is in your library! Includes afterword, helpful websites, acknowledgements, and a list of eating disorder factoids.
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too by TeensReadToo.com (All Over the US & Canada) 5 Stars
July 11, 2007
In Nadia Shivack's heartbreaking true story, she tells the world about her life-long problem with eating disorders. Told with a mixture of text and pictures drawn by Ms. Shivack, her preoccupation with food began when her mother told her that not only did she not dress like a girl, but that she was also getting chunky. Her parents had their own problems - her father was overly critical and her mother, a Holocaust survivor, refused to let her three children leave the table until they had cleaned their plates, even though she herself only ate one small meal a day to survive.
When Nadia began swimming competitively in school, her swim coach would praise the girls who were slender and berate those who, in his opinion, needed to lose weight. She began to feel huge and unattractive, and started the cycle of abuse with restricting her diet and then binging on foods that were not allowed. It wasn't long before she met "Ed," her eating disorder - the evil alien being who took over her life.
Nadia's trouble with food was not restricted to her youth. Through high school, through college, through study programs and medication, she struggled with it her entire life. Even knowing the side effects - being unable to sleep, rotting gums from purging, being incapable of having effective relationships - it wasn't until Nadia was about to turn forty that she decided to try another treatment program.
Thankfully, Ms. Shivack did eventually overcome the horror of her eating disorder. Like many other diseases, however, she knows that this will be a lifelong struggle, something that she will always have to work at. By telling her story inside the pages of INSIDE OUT, she hopes that other people struggling with an eating disorder will realize just how serious it is, and that reaching out for help isn't a sign of weakness, but of strength.
Although I've never had an eating disorder, I truly felt empowered by reading INSIDE OUT. Nadia's story could be that of any number of young people in the world today, and I hope that they all are able to come to the same realization that she was - that letting food rule your life is never a good thing.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
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