My name is Trisha Gura and I am author of “Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women” (Harper Collins, May 2007). While the media continues to focus on eating disorders in teenagers, that focus has created a myth: when the girls get older, their eating disorders evaporate. The truth is that nearly 2/3 of individuals with eating disorders do not fully recover. The illness, or some remnant of it, remains, triggered by stresses and huge life transitions, i.e. marriage, pregnancy, parenting, mid and late life.

If it helps anyone, I just wrote a blog on Huffington Post about these stories. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trisha-gura/not-just-for-teens_b_57416.html

We need to create better awareness so as not to neglect older women and their needs.

Trisha Gura
trishagura.com