Slim to None

Name: Slim to None
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ISBN: 9780071428842

ISBN-10: 0071428844

ISBN-13: 9780071428842

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jennifer Hendricks, Gordon Hendricks

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Slim to None is the private journal of the late Jennifer Hendricks. Candidly detailed and eloquently written, it is an intimate chronicle of her long and ultimately fatal battle with anorexia, a disease that still claims more victims than any other mental illness. The book illustrates Jenny's intense emotional struggles -- how her pride for her improving health clashed with her undefined guilt over eating; her destructive conflict between will and reason; her dispiriting war between self-confidence and self-doubt. It is an extraordinary first-hand account of an illness that continues to undermine the mental-health system. Edited and with narration by Jenny's father, Slim to None is also the…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 256
Language: English

Jennifer Hendricks was the valedictorian of her high school class but spent most of her last five years confined in hospitals. She weighed just 45 pounds when she died at age 25.

Foreword	p. ix
Narrator's Preface	p. xiii
Prologue: No Time Left for Me	p. xv
Searching for a Cause
Dieting for Lent	p. 3
Yellow Roses	p. 9
Not a Bad Girl	p. 15
Voodoo Psychiatry	p. 23
This Evening's for You	p. 35
Confrontation	p. 41
Gain Weight--or Else	p. 49
Therapeutic Relief	p. 67
Unpleasant Memories	p. 81
An Abused Child, Perhaps	p. 91
I'm Sorry, Jenny	p. 101
You Are the Rat	p. 113
A Circle Ends Only Where It Begins	p. 123
The Beast Within	p. 133
I Quit	p. 151
Searching for a Cure
God's Child	p. 161
Full Throttle Back Pedal	p. 175
Angry	p. 179
Pine Grove	p. 193
What Went Wrong	p. 205
Red Blood on White Sheets in Sunshine	p. 21
Flight Without Escape	p. 217
Perretons 3--Languishing	p. 229
Victimized	p. 243
Searching for Release
After the King's Men	p. 261
I Cannot See the Sun	p. 269
The Dilemma	p. 275
Do I Finally Get to See the Sun	p. 291
I'm Not Ready to Die	p. 303
Final Thoughts	p. 311
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