Eating disorders can rewire your brain. I bookmark articles about reward systems and “altered activity” in “corticostriatal processes,” and I take note of people who seem not to have performed a master reset. But I am also attuned to stories of those who have. And this is a significant difference between who I am now and who I was back then. Now I am also drawn to the second half of the book, the part where the narrator gets over it. Now I am hungry for the end.
