Cynthia Rowland McClure

Outdated, at best.

Cynthia Rowland apparently suffered from bulimia for twelve years. The book opens with a brief description of her bingeing and purging routine and quickly moves on to a Christian rehab facility setting. The whole book is about Cynthia's experience in rehab. All she does is whine, cry, and blame others. She develops a crush on a married patient and forms friendships with several teenagers and otherwise acts like a child instead of a twenty-eight year old woman. Her therapist, Mike, is abusive and frankly I find his techniques disturbing. He repeatedly calls Cynthia "damaged freight" and encourages her to act like a child. He also encourages her to blame her eating disorder on her parents and her brother rather than taking responsibility for herself.

It's sad how misunderstood bulimia and anorexia were in the 1980s.… (mehr)