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Seconds to Snap: One Explosive Day. a Family Destroyed. My Descent Into Anorexia.

Seconds to Snap: One Explosive Day. a Family Destroyed. My Descent Into Anorexia.

McGuff, Tina

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAddiction & RecoveryMental Health

ISBN10: 1784183822
ISBN13: 9781784183820
Publisher: John Blake
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
I can tell you exactly the day it all went wrong--the day my mum attacked my dad with a kitchen knife. In those few, short seconds, a black hole opened up in my life and I fell right in.

Tina McGuff's life was perfect - or so she thought. Living in Dundee with her devoted parents and three younger sisters, she was a happy, healthy, and confident 13-year-old. But all that changed in one horrifying act of revenge, and Tina's world collapsed overnight. Terrified, lost, and confused, she turned to the one thing she thought she could control--food. And so began the biggest fight of her life. Tina's life-or-death struggle with anorexia is told with devastating honesty in this extraordinary account of a girl at war with herself. Through her years in and out of psychiatric wards, Tina takes us to some of the darkest places of the mind. But in the end her courage, conviction, and sheer determination win out. It took Tina seconds to snap and a lifetime to recover--but today, as a passionate campaigner for mental health, she is living proof that there is always a reason to hope that one day, things will get better.

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