Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

2010 • 320 pages

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Average rating3.6

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I suspect this is a book that is going to stay with me for a long time. I laughed more than I expected, but then the next page would hit me with some horrible/painful revelation. Interspersing pictures with the doctor's diagnoses was extremely effective and her descriptions were vivid, particularly of the bath in her hotel room.
The parallels with anxiety and depression really got to me; I hadn't realised (suppose I'd never really thought about it) how integral they are to an eating disorder. There were too many things in this that I recognised and that's probably what is going to stick with me most.

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