Title: My Name Is Caroline
First published: 1988
Description: “I was, literally, dying to be thin.” It was seven tortured years before Caroline could make this shocking confession. No one who knew her would have guessed. How could they? She appeared to have just about everything going for her - good looks, good friends, and a picture-perfect family. But the ugly truth was Caroline’s most closely guarded secret: she was bulimic. From high school through college and into her marriage, her addiction to food led her to compulsively lie and steal to get the enormous amounts of it she needed for her 
binges. Painful, self-degrading, and often extremely dangerous purges followed these feeding frenzies; all considerations of her health were pushed aside. When Caroline finally realized what she was doing to herself, pride led her to believe she could break the insidious cycle on her own. Only after several frustrating - and frightening - attempts did she realize the severity of her problem and cry out for help. Caroline found the help she needed, the help everyone with eating disorders needs, and now, four years later at twenty-six, she considers herself to be safely on the road to lifetime recovery, one day at a time. An experienced and compelling lecturer on the subject, she is devoted to carrying her message of hope and recovery to the millions of women and men who suffer from bulimia and related diseases. In MY NAME IS CAROLINE, Caroline Miller speaks out with amazing candor, sharing the entire story of her destructive descent into obsession and the step by step method that led her to triumph over it This uplifting book is must reading for both the millions of Americans struggling with eating disorders and for their families and friends, who are trying to understand and help.” BOOK JACKET
Subjects: Bulimia, Health, Patients, Biography, New York Times reviewed, Women, biography, Personal Narratives
Places: United States
People: Caroline Adams Miller (1961-)
LC classification: RC552.B84 M55 1988