Eating Disorder Cookbook

12/14/21 • 71 min

Welcome to the first three episode arc of the podcast, on eating disorders. Anorexia is up first. Lauren & Rebecca discuss, fear foods, Karen Carpenter, Amy Winehouse, The Best Little Girl In The World, Lene Marie Fosson, Wasted, the ana creed, the thin commandments, progression of restriction, and watching the Food Network while starving on purpose. Lauren moderated a pro-ana message board in the aughts. In the Patreon episode, we discuss our personal histories with the most admired (and deadly) of the eating disorders.

Bibliography:

Best Little Girl In The World by Steven Levenkron

Wasted by Marya Hornbacher

Bibliography:

Best Little Girl In The World by Steven Levenkron

Wasted by Marya Hornbacher

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Mental Health, Interrupted

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." - Dorothy Parker Another dive into the history of the modern mental asylum, this time from 1900 to today. Hosts Lauren MCQ and Rebecca Rush discuss Girl, Interrupted; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Lobotomies; Sylvia Plath; Deinstitutionalization (and therefore recriminalization) of the mentally ill (Thanks, Reagan!); electroshock therapy; The Bell Jar; Zelda Fitzgerald, and more. Lauren once asked her Dr for electroshock therapy to help her stop thinking about a man. This Patreon episode is about each of the hosts second (and hopefully final) experience in the psych ward. If that isn't a sign this partnership was meant to be, what is?

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Bibliography:

1. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

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Hulu & Hurl

Welcome to our exploration of bulimia, whose movies all have secret in the title. Do bulimics come from chaotic families? Who knows, we basically stopped covering it in the media in 2005. Famous bulimics include Lady Gaga, Jane Fonda, Elton John, and Princess Diana. The link with addict brain, private self torture vs throwing up public, brain over binge (terrible) and do our binge/purge desires go down as we focus on *gasp* self nurture?

Patreon ep details the anatomy of a binge.

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