Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

by Rachel Aviv

Eventually, though, it became apparent that gaining insight into interpersonal conflicts, though intellectually rewarding, did not provide a cure.

I wasn’t bound to any particular story about the role of illness in my life. There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which.

97 percent of eating-disorder specialists said that their patients had been put in situations that threatened their lives, because their insurance wouldn’t pay for more care, and one in five specialists said that insurance companies were responsible for the death of a patient.