This week on Wellbeing we are talking with Kelsey Osgood, a New York based writer. Kelsey started developing anorexia when she was 14. Her battle with anorexia would be decade long and would consist of three lengthy hospitalisations. After her recovery she began writing her story down. These writings would become her 2013 book "How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia". The book set out not to be like many of the Anorexia memoirs that came out during the '90's and early 2000s that romanticised the condition. 

In this episode, Kelsey talks about the beginnings of her anorexia, the culture towards anorexia in the 90's and early 2000s, how it impacted her relationship with food at the time, how it changed her daily life over time, her journey to recovery, how her book came to be, her thoughts on the understanding of anorexia in wider society, and gives some tips for friends and family member in how to support and approach people with anorexia. 

"I think even when I was a teenager and I was first hospitalised in the year 2000, people, compared to the statistical number of people who have a clinical eating disorder, people were very aware of what Anorexia and Bulimia was. Maybe there was some lingering insensitivities to it but there was really this enormous push, starting with the death of Karen Carpenter in 1983, that was really trying to tell people this is not about weight, its about any number of things; its about control, its about people pleasing, its about nefarious cultural forces" - Kelsey Osgood on this episode of Wellbeing

Tune in next week when we talk with Brittney Burgunder about her anorexia and binge eating disorder journey  

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