Anorexia is characterized by intentional and often excessive weight loss. Whether they are doctors, patients or parents, they bring their testimony or expertise on this eating disorder.
In 1979, Valérie Valère, a 16-year-old writer, testifies to the violence of her hospitalization for anorexia at the age of 13 described in her book "Le pavillon des enfants fous". She considers her illness to be a call to others unlike suicide.
Delphine, a young anorexic girl fed by tube, is taken in charge in a department specialized in teen medicine at the hospital of Kremlin Bicêtre. She expresses her fear of swallowing calories and her desire to get better. Interview with a nurse.
Chauchard’s testimony on the anorexia of her 17-year-old daughter Sabine, who has been ill for five years. She looks back on the onset of the disease, the diagnosis and the life of her daughter marked by hospital stays.
Report at the Charles Nicolle hospital in Rouen. Adolescent girls with anorexia and bulimia problems attend a workshop after hospitalization to improve their image of themselves. This day hospitalization, supervised by teams of caregivers, is intended to help them in their return to normal life. Testimony of Lucie, first-year student, and interview of Priscille Gérardin, in charge of child psychiatry at the Rouen CHU.