
"By the time I was eleven years old, I’d already been on fifteen medications, seen ten doctors, been diagnosed with six disorders, and gone to five schools. . . . Through the nineteen years I’ve been alive, more of my time has probably been spent in doctor’s offices, treatment centers, and hospitals than with friends. After coming home from my first treatment center at the age of fifteen, I decided the time had come for me to try and make sense of everything." By Melissa Binstock
A raw, honest, first-person account of living (and deteriorating) with multiple psychiatric, psychological, and physical disorders by an articulate young woman who shines a spotlight on disordered thinking.
An abridged version of Nourishment was given the Gold Key Award by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers in 2005.
Has been featured in articles in The Houston Chronicle, The Bellaire Buzz, The Tanglewood Buzz, and The Jewish Herald Voice, and interviewed on the Dan Patrick Show.
Nourishment is the first memoir about disordered thinking to be used as a textbook for a psychopathology class (at Georgia Southern University).