I Had a Dream..
For a birthday treat, C took me away to West Somerset, to Binham Grange, a country house and farm. It was a chance booking, turning out fortunately to be a […]
For a birthday treat, C took me away to West Somerset, to Binham Grange, a country house and farm. It was a chance booking, turning out fortunately to be a […]
I love Charlotte Bevan. There she is, in the midst of ShittyIllnessVille, but she has time to post the best and worst of the Internet. Today, whilst at work, an […]
One of the losses of anorexia is that meals we used to enjoy together as a family are now minefields to be navigated. Family meals are part of the fabric […]
I went back to work today after three weeks off on leave. Yesterday, we had a discussion between C, K, J and I about helping L. We agreed the ground […]
In an intense and harrowing day, I grab a few moments to sit in the front room, in my favourite armchair and read the papers. Unusually, J is there, and […]
Early on in CAMHS treatment, L’s psychiatrist told us that anorexia controlled people in different ways and cited the story of a patient who always had to leave some food […]
Yesterday after a tough talk with L, ending with a long hug, up in her attic bedroom, a familiar sound made me take her to the skylight window, to see […]
The lovely Laura Collins sent me an email once in which she said she never intended to parent like this. I didn’t understand it then as much as I do […]
On the Around the Dinner Table Forum, there are stories of anorexic children turning into the child in the Exorcist under the influence of an eating order demon. Food is […]
The thing is, we will all die. None of us gets out of here alive. But we are so, so squeamish about death. My adoptive mother would never say the […]