Not all Black girls know how to eat : a story of bulimia / Stephanie Covington Armstrong.
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TextPublisher: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781569763186
- 1569763186
- Covington Armstrong, Stephanie -- Health
- Covington Armstrong, Stephanie -- Mental health
- Covington Armstrong, Stephanie -- Childhood and youth
- Covington Armstrong, Stephanie
- Bulimia -- United States -- Case studies
- Bulimia -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- African American women -- Mental health -- Case studies
- African American families -- New York (State) -- New York
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- Boulimie -- États-Unis -- Études de cas
- Boulimiques -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Noires américaines -- Biographies
- Noires américaines -- Santé mentale -- Études de cas
- Familles noires américaines -- New York (État) -- New York
- SELF-HELP -- Eating Disorders
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Eating Disorders
- African American families
- African American women
- African American women -- Mental health
- Bulimia
- Bulimia -- Patients
- Health
- Mental health
- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (State) -- New York -- Bedford-Stuyvesant
- United States
- 616.85/2630092 B 22
- RC552.B84 C68 2009eb
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A hungry childhood -- Returning home -- Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn -- Monster in the family -- Father's day -- Missing mommy -- A communist among us -- The trouble with puberty -- Tragedies -- On my own -- Losing it -- Hollywood, California -- What goes down must come up -- Manorexic -- New York -- Location, location, location -- Dating for doughnuts -- Resistance is futile -- Giving up the fight -- The inward journey -- On solid ground.
Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by never slowing down, unaware that she is caught in downward spiral emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Finally she can no longer deny that she will die if she doesn't get help, overcome her shame, and conquer her addiction. But seeking help only reinforces her negative self-image, and she discovers her race makes her an oddity in the all-white programs for eating disorders. This memoir of her experiences answers many questions about why black women often do not seek traditional therapy for emotional problems.
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