Eating and purging was one of my addictions after my husband Larry left for Vietnam and when I checked myself into the Menninger Clinic in 1970. It was a ritual that relieved my escalating anxiety and the sense that all the fear building up inside of me would blow off the top of my head. At the time, my fear had a constant cadence like a drumbeat. Not long after being hospitalized during one of our afternoon sessions, Dr. Roberts visited with me about a report from one of the cafeteria … [Read more...]