Skinny Boy - A Young Man's Battle and Triumph Over Anorexia (Electronic book text)

Gary Grahl was both handsome and popular, a boy whoseaathletic abilities attracted the attention of the big leagues . . . until IT, a shaming inner-voice thataconvinced him to be ever thinner. His out-of-control compulsion to exercise and starve himself led to multiple hospitalizations, and a life and death battle to win control over the pervasive and dangerous IT.
"Skinny Boy" is a powerful story showing how anyone can win the internal battle between mind and body, and triumph over the out-of-control thoughts and feelings common to many mental disorders.a
"Skinny Boy" is the first and only book to describe how a young man overcame this often fatal disorder, normally associated with young women, athat kills thousands of young people each year. It also offers therapists, sufferers, and their families with a powerful new tool to helpathematriumph in the battle over self."