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Skinny Boy: A Young Man's Battle and Triumph Over Anorexia

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Having years of experience in an acute care psychiatric setting, I'm not familiar with any other book that so deftly describes the internal dialogue between this young man's mental illness, and his weakened will to survive. Too often, people who have never experienced a mental illness don't understand the extreme difficulty sufferers experience. Much of their suffering comes on the battlefront of the mind. How the author eventually wins that battle makes this book a must read for anyone with an eating disorder. Families and professionals will also appreciate the frustrating battles his family endures, but also how important patience is with those who suffer from an eating disorder. It's a great book.

All i can say is that this book describes the mental process of what i would assume any person either male or female suffer from. I my self have live with an ED for several years and have waited for a book that takes the male point of view. The internal conversations within him self hit home to such a degree that sometimes it feels like its my own life. I highly reccomend this book to all men who struggle with an ED as well as all women. Good luck and god bless

I'm currently struggling with anorexia, and when i read this book it not only motivated me but made me feel not so alone. I related to Gary's thoughts and feelings. This book would be perfect for a parent with a child who has and ed, a friend, or for anyone else who's interested in the subject. It's fast moving...and hard to stop reading. I highly recommend it.

As an OT (occupational therapy) student, I am interested in working with adolescents with psychiatric disorders, including eating disorders. This book had a wealth of clinical information by describing the client perspective in a way I would have never thought an eating disorder worked. The voice of IT and YOU bring an entire new implication of the interactions and conversations necessary for therapy.

The actual OT sections of the book were interesting because it provides a look into how a patient perceives what an OT is doing. Although the events occurring in the book were in the late 1980s and OT has since then changed dramatically, the book's description of OT as an arts and crafts session really stresses the need for all health practitioners to define what they are doing for the patient with the patient and discussing with the patient choices and likes and dislikes versus assuming the purpose of therapy will fall into place.

I recommend this book for any future or current health practitioner who wants an entirely new perspective from their patients with eating disorders.

This book should be required reading for every professional who treats patients suffering from eating disorders. The fact that males, as well as females suffers from this type of mental illness has long been, at best, ignored, or at worst, denied. Thanks to Gary Grahl for his contribution to the understanding of how anorexia can be as deadly to men as to women. This book is well-written, with honesty and even humor, but the points it makes are dead serious. Highly recommended reading.

I thought the book was an excellent, rare insight into the mindset of a male struggling with an eating disorder. A definite read.

This books is full of grammatical and spelling errors! It certainly needs either a new editor or another revision. Furthermore, I felt the book's beginning could use some revamping. For instance, it begins narration from the writer's point of view without giving us some general background about who this person is, how old he is and so forth. It's not until much much later do we begin to get some sense of who this person is--that is, the context surrounding this author.

The Kindle/ebook version of this book is really poorly formatted. Horrible. It distracts from the content.

Do I recommend this book? Well, yes because it is rare to hear the store of an [...] male. But, be prepared for some poor editing and for some writing that needs revising!